In A Stack of Black Cats (1990, 40 mins, Color), Lynne Merrick beautifully captures the rhythms and rituals of 72-year-old Lima's life on her mountain farm in Montana. "I have not attempted to capture or 'recreate' real-time moments...but to construct the story-forms as a context for Lima's presence of living. The film is about the continuity of a life, not just a continuum of things gotten done during a lifetime, a view which I believe removes us from our humanity." Pola Rapaport's mother, the artist Marjorie O'Brien Rapaport, tells the stories behind two pieces of her jewelry, elucidating her richly experienced life, in Tooth and Mask (1987, 12 mins, Color). Dana Plays premieres her newest film, Love Stories My Grandmother Tells, Part 1 (1994, 30 mins, B&W). The diaries and memories of her 90-year-old grandmother Peggy Regler create a complex portrait of one woman's intimate experiences, and of a life spanning the twentieth century. Her autobiography emerges through formal references to early cinema, a historical moment which changed our conception of subjectivity.-Kathy Geritz