We conclude the academic year with the presentation of three evenings (June 7, 14 and 21) of new films and reprises which are designed to take another look at themes and issues explored in Alternative Visions programs of the past year. The works in tonight's program deal with emotions or rituals attached to the passing of time and life. Some, including Necrology, Dervish Machine and Le Vampire, refer to "death" metaphorically-the inability to engage with life, the fragility of experience, the blacking out of a culture, the power of the photographic medium to re-create. Erin Sax's recently completed Seven of Worlds examines practices surrounding death with an observing eye concerned with seeing precisely, yet which at times must look away. While a difficult film-it documents the preparation of bodies for viewing-it is also powerful in revealing death, which is ordinarily shrouded by denial, and in acknowledging that rituals can release buried emotions. Stan Brakhage described making Sirius Remembered as a resistance to the "decay of memories of a loved being who had died." Peter Herwitz's Winter Dream Lieder intricately works images of nature to suggest both interior moments and "a simple dichotomy of blossoming and darkness," while Joe Gibbons finds in nature the inspiration for his darkly humorous monologue, Elegy.-Kathy Geritz Elegy (Joe Gibbons, 1992, 12 mins, B&W, 3/4" Video). Necrology (Standish Lawder, 1969-70, 12 mins, B&W). Seven of Worlds (Erin Sax, 1994, 18 mins, Color/B&W). Winter Dream Lieder (Peter Herwitz, 1993, 12 mins, Silent, Color). Le Vampire (Jean Painlevé, 1945, 9 mins, B&W). Sirius Remembered (Stan Brakhage, 1959, Silent, Color, 12 mins). Dervish Machine (Bradley Eros, Jeanne Liotta, 1992, 10 mins, B&W).