Focused largely on women's experience, these five recent films are evocative and intense. Kerry Laitala's beautiful, melancholic Secure the Shadow uses antique medical slides to create a disturbing meditation on the fragility of the body. In the collage film Short of Breath, Jay Rosenblatt delves into cycles of depression. Using found footage of a mischievous chimpanzee's adventures at 1930s Coney Island, in Last Lost Eve Heller constructs a haunting image of a woman who loses consciousness. Nina Fonoroff's accomplished Accursed Mazurka speaks about the unspeakable. It is a collage of layered and fragile images and sounds. As the artist characterizes it, "Dramatic recitations, clinical records, obsessive journal entries, and watercolor illustrations depicting a pierced and bleeding brain are some elements that make up this fabulation around the occasion of mental breakdown. The event is reconstructed by a woman who has temporarily lost her 'reason,' her body, and her sense of personal identity." In Mathias Mueller's deeply affecting Home Stories, women react in fear to unseen forces.-Kathy Geritz