The films in this program employ a mixture of found footage and sound and Strand's own images and words to recount inner journeys, whether in search of self, meaning, or another person. These are postmodern sojourns marked by numerous ruptures, lack of control, and a sense of impossibility of resolution. In the autobiographical Elasticity (1976, 25 mins, Color), Strand brings together diverse images and voices to evoke her search for self, thus "decentering the first-person voice, distributing it among a number of speakers" (David James). In Loose Ends (1979, 25 mins, B&W), "a collage film about the process of internalizing the information which bombards us" (CS), she uses humorous, absurd and tragic juxtapositions of images and text to question representational and scientific discourse, and ultimately to suggest that "these fragmented images of life...lead us to a state of psychological entropy tending toward a uniform inertness"(CS). Coming Up for Air (1986, 26 mins, Color), which "explores a reckless pursuit of interchangeable personalities and experience"(CS), is concerned with a search for meaning and the nature of telling. Here Strand's elliptical and dreamlike stories-within-stories challenge us to question narrative and the relation of image and sound as we lose ourselves in their interstices.-Irina Leimbacher