New York–based artist Julie Murray will present a program of her film and video work spanning the last decade. After relocating from Ireland to the Bay Area in the late eighties, Murray became known for her edgy, deftly edited found-footage films that used do-it-yourself rephotography and sound mixing. Her later work includes sensual, rhythmic found-footage explorations that also incorporate original footage, such as Conscious (1993, 8 mins, Silent, Color/B&W), Anathema (1995, 7 mins, Color), and If You Stand With Your Back to the Slowing of the Speed of Light in Water (1997, 18 mins, Color). A beautiful, microscopic study of insects, Micromoth (2000, 7 mins, Color) was in part inspired by the surrealistic scientific films of Jean Painlevé, while Fl. Oz (2002, 8 mins, Silent, Color) and Untitled (blood) (2002, 8 mins, Sound on CD, Color/B&W) are also intricate, focused studies. Otherrehto (2000, 3 mins, Color/ B&W, Video) is a short digital video “constructed of re-agitated film frames of a roiling Rorschach.” Plus a new work! Also screening: Slime Molds: Plant or Animal? by Thomas J. Stanton (1979, 12 mins, Color), featuring time-lapse photography of an organism that, as Murray notes, “defies neat, scientific categorization (but) seems for a moment to become the truth about everything”-an open-ended quality that characterizes much of her own work.

Julie Murray will present a second program of films at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts on Thursday, October 7, as part of the San Francisco Cinematheque's “Dialogues in the Dark” series. For information, phone (415) 552-1990.