Learning always takes place within a setting, a context.Several imaginative works examine the child's formative education,underscored by a larger social resonance: In Beckman and Kelley'sabsurdist tale, Blind Country (1989, 20 mins), a young man (Kelley)leaves his phallocentric land, arriving in a feminine, sensual realm.Stripped of his authority, he must re-learn the rules of the body,literally come to his senses. Millner and Larsen's Out of the Mouth ofBabes (1986, 24 mins) parallels a young child's language acquisitionwith the perpetuation of U.S. foreign policy. The enforced repetition,the rote ingestion of words echo the complacent gullibility of thecitizenry. Envisioning a feminist future, DeMichiel's Consider Anything,Only Don't Cry (1988, 22 mins) goes about sorting through the past formarkers and mementos of self-empowerment. Throughout this highlyliterary incantation of choice, a young girl is tutored about thetechnical tools needed to find her own artful voice. Patterned after aclassic French primer, Godard's France/tour/detour/deux/enfants(movement 11) (France, 1978, 26 mins) teaches of the child Camille'sinvisibility within the family and of humanity's two greatestinventions: sex and death.-Steve Seid