Stefan FerreiraCluver in Person In Observations of CertainSensations: 37?'N, 122?3'W (1992, 35 mins, B&W), Stefan FerreiraCluver offers a provocative example of intellectual history that locatespower and its abuse within a complex matrix of scientific and artisticdiscourses. Mapmaking, prison architecture, interrogation, andtime-motion and anatomical studies are analyzed as means of organizingand ordering information which, when related to the human body, havebeen used for economic, social, and politial control. Ultimately,torture itself is supported by practices that characterize the victim'sbody as a fixed, knowable (hence powerless) site. In Paula Froehle'simpressionistic study, Second Skin (1990, 16 mins, B&W), the body isalso segmented and analyzed. A photograph of a woman's face is read toreveal information about her character. The extreme confinement proposedby such a "science" is linked to a woman's poetic musings onagoraphobia, taking off from a line from an Anne Sexton poem, "somewomen marry houses. It's a second kind of skin...." Knucklebones(1992, 13 mins, B&W) is a haunting evocation of the body understress by Caroline Koebel, a graduate of Berkeley's Film Studiesprogram. --Kathy Geritz