In Person: Jon Moritsugu, Jacques Boyreau, Elizabeth Canning Like the French New Wave filmmakers who voraciously viewed cinema and paid homage to it in their films, Jon Moritsugu (self-described "boil on the buttocks of the American independent film scene" with My Degeneration, Der Elvis) and Jacques Boyreau seem to have grown up on film. But since history moves on, the films they steal from (not always in homage!) include the New Wave. While Godard and Truffaut learned cinema at the movies, Moritsugu is a graduate of Brown University's Semiotics Program, which may or may not explain his singular press releases that put words into the mouths of unsuspecting critics. If for no other reason than that it quotes modernists Ozu, Resnais, Godard, and Truffaut, Hippie Porn is a postmodern narrative, a fragmented collage of black-and-white realism, animation, music videos, long takes, and direct address. The only constant is the apathy of the three art student stars, M, L, and Mick. (Some scenes were shot at the San Francisco Art Institute). Not tortured enough to be romantic artists, they avoid experience altogether-discuss sex rather than engage in it, write on rock-and-roll bands in lieu of playing in them, sit at the Café Camus instead of in class. Because of this, rather than in spite it, the film is very funny, with a striking visual sense...even worth stealing from. -Kathy Geritz