David Gatten and Luis Recoder's approach to film is that of wizards and illusionists-they both rethink every aspect of cinema, whether the use of a camera, the functioning of a projector, or reworking film strips, and create beautiful, impossible, decidedly nonstandardized images, all by sleight-of-hand. In What the Water Said, nos. 1-3 (1997-98 , 16 mins, B&W), Gatten produces delicate images solely through the contact of unexposed film with the ocean. His Moxon's Mechanick Exercises, or the Doctrine of Handy-works Applied to the Art of Printing (1999, 26 mins, silent, B&W) was created by hand, using cellophane tape. The film explores both the development of the printing press and language as image.Recoder has also created films that circumvent the camera; Available Light (2000, 12 mins, Color) is one of a series of films created through exposing rolls of film to light. His most recent projection performance, Passages (2000, 11 mins, Silent, Color), is constructed from hand-cut film which necessitates bypassing the projector gears. Still Film (2000, 20 mins, White Light, Silent, 35mm), another projection performance, focuses attention on the usually invisible projector change-over, and through the activation of two projectors liberates a riveting world of abstraction.-Kathy Geritz