Works by Julie Zando and Jo Anstey, Kathy High, and John Orentlicher Tonight's program offers wildly different videoworks that explore the position of women within the therapeutic industries. John Orentlicher's quirky documentary, Misaligned Shafts (1989, 12:30 mins), unmasks the history of the vibrator, which was developed as a 19th century corrective for female hysteria. By appropriating the vibrator as an implement of self-gratification rather than cure, the tape suggests pleasure is wrenched from the hands of the patriarchy. Kathy High's I Need Your Full Cooperation (1989, 28 mins) concentrates on the forced passivity of female patients within modern medical practice. Dramatizing "The Yellow Wallpaper," a story about the "rest cure," along with telling moments from American cinema and feminist readings of medical tracts, this sobering tape observes a resistance to the imperiousness of patriarchal healing. In Julie Zando and Jo Anstey's remarkable The Bus Stops Here: 3 Case Histories (1990, 27 mins), the struggle for autonomy occurs on the levels of narrative, family, and the psychoanalytic establishment. Two sisters and a man, lover to one, therapist to the other, form a strange oedipal triangle, entrapping desire and expression. Breaking free of this geometry requires that the sisters re-evaluate the power vested in love. Zando strikes at Freud's triumviral family, while finding that same authority in the very nature of representation. --Steve Seid