Abraham Ravett, a photographer and filmmaker who teaches at Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts, uses the film medium to explore memory. Photographs and home movies dominate his newest autobiographical film, Everything's For You. They are repeated, manipulated, and replicated as he probes and questions his and his family's past. Yet there is the sense that these photographic images somehow elude what Ravett seeks; to see is not to know. The images he includes are from his generation and his father's; they range from individual and school portraits, to casual footage of family outings, the recording of family history and archival footage of The Ghetto Fighters house in Israel. While they seem transparent, an image of a person or event, Ravett probes the gap between the photographic trace of the past and the image his father has related of his past. Everything's For You centers on Ravett's attempt to understand and close this gap. One senses his desire that photography fulfill its mystical promise to elude death, to allow the present to come to terms with the past-for Ravett, who, now a father, sees himself in his father, and for his recently deceased father, whose past was painfully scarred by the Holocaust. --Kathy Geritz