Marilyn Fabe teaches in the Film Studies Program at UC Berkeley.

Film as an art form, Maya Deren believed, should convey inner experience, not events that can be witnessed by other persons. This position is evident in her landmark Meshes of the Afternoon, which features herself and was filmed at her home in Los Angeles. Shown in a new preservation print, Carolee Schneemann's Fuses provides a sensual, graphic portrayal of her lovemaking with James Tenney. Erotic rather than pornographic, the film was shot by both Schneemann and Tenney, so that the point of view is fluid and shifting. The very film itself is eroticized by Schneemann's touch-she painted, scratched, and sculpted the film material, even baked the film, creating a true “home” movie. In Sink or Swim, Su Friedrich uses black-and-white home movies, archival footage, and her own cinematography to examine her relationship with her father, who departed from her life when she was a young girl. Friedrich's film is filled with personal, fragile memories.