In Person: Tatsu Aoki, Curator, Innocent Eyes and Lenses Since 1985, touring programs offered by Innocent Eyes and Lenses in Chicago have introduced us to the unique sensibility of recent Japanese experimental films. The use of local landscape in the "quest for identity" is a concept shared by the films on this year's program, which is co-curated by Hiroyuki Ikeda. Tokio House (Sumiaki Ishida, 1990, 7 mins): "I drew on my own memories of wooden houses and the way I imagine them to have been in my youth." Hasseishoku (Eclipse for Occurrence, Jun Miyazaki, 1992, 7 mins, Silent): "Open your eyes to the eclipse and face it without turning away, for an occurrence is soon to happen." Personal Town (Keita Kurosaka, 1990, 30 mins): "The most important things in life are eating and excreting. This is the imaginable landscape between pain and pleasure." Landscape Catching (Hiroyuki Oki, 1992, 5 mins): "In this film boys, the sun, the small town and the countryside, even the air of the Kouchi region are captured." Komorebi (Ippei Harada, 1992, 12 mins): "Komorebi is a word which describes the scene when sunbeams are shining through the branches of trees." The Melodies of Ecstasy (Katsumi Aoi, 1992, 10 mins): "A sort of experimental love comedy." Shishosetsu #5 (Nobuhiro Kawanaka, 1991, 25 mins): "Shishosetsu ('realized' fiction) is a uniquely Japanese concept which uses personal experience to 'grow' fictional events."-Notes from filmmakers and Image Forum, Tokyo Followed by A Dandelion (Rosaceae, Utako Koguchi, 1990). Only recently, and with difficulty, have Japanese women had access to filmmaking possibilities. A Dandelion is a delightfully bizarre exploration of twin sisters' transcendental sexuality. (8 mins, From artist)