Artist in PersonBrett Simon's quirky digital videos have frequently graced our screen over the last three years. Witty and elegant, they take deceptively simple narratives on surprising and satisfying twists and turns. Whether conceiving of a future trophy girlfriend for his present student-filmmaker self (A Film for My Unborn Supermodel, 2002, 8 mins) or imagining a boy and a goldfish who swap bodies (Switch Fish, 2000, 7 mins), Simon creates fractured fairy tales for adults with a lush, inventive visual vocabulary that displays his passion for cinema. (He received an M.F.A. in Art Practice and is pursuing a Ph.D. in Cinema Studies, both at UC Berkeley.) Incorporating poetic repetition, dreamy logic, and projected desires, Simon remakes the classic boy-meets-girl narrative from the vantage of boys from the wrong side of the tracks (The End, 2001, 8 mins), chocolate-loving girls (Good Friday, 2001, 3 mins), and happily-ever-after couples (The Flickerflash, 2001, 8 mins). Always conscious of his medium, Simon pays homage to Marey, Duchamp, and Busby Berkeley in his most recent video, The New Step (2002, 3 mins), and to penny arcades and image reproduction technologies in Counterfeit Film (2001, 3 mins). His public service announcement created specifically for PFA (with Lily Prillinger, 2002, c. 5 mins) - a triptych of severe discouragements to using a cell phone in the theater - will be shown along with the diorama in which it was filmed. Plus The Girl Who Would Do Anything (2000, 7 mins) and Untitled (3 mins).