The engaging videoworks in this evening's program explore both personal and collective memory as a function of cultural reconstruction. In Richard Fung's beautifully photographed tape, The Way To My Father's Village (38 mins, Color), the artist's search for his historical roots collides with his father's refusal to identify with the Old World. These contradictions are poignantly expressed as Fung, a Canadian resident, confronts his own misconceptions about Guangdong, China, birthplace of his father. Kip Fulbeck's backward glance, Banana Split (37:25 mins, Color), is also rife with contradictions, but here they spring from dual cultures, Chinese and American. An inveterate storyteller, Fulbeck recounts hilarious autobiographical tales of his "split" life as a child of mixed parentage. These clever, well-nuanced stories are presented with an irony that comes from shifting cultural footing. Rea Tajiri's powerful new work, History and Memory (30 mins, Color/B&W) pits personal memory against collective history in an attempt to reclaim the past (and, by extension, the future). Focusing on the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, Tajiri shows how a culture is subsumed by the media and then re-introduced as a cleansed "image." By disrupting official history with personal stories of the internment, the highly poetic History and Memory releases cultural memory from the prison of ideology. --Steve Seid