Preceded by: Old Digs (Gunvor Nelson, 1992). A beautiful evocation of the sights and sounds of Kristinehamn, Sweden. (20 mins) ------------------Tonight we present the premiere of Before Need Redressed, Gunvor Nelson and Dorothy Wiley's re-edited version of the 1979 film Before Need. "Does aging bring perspective to this life, often lived by absurd Standards of Behavior, when all soon turns to dust? (We started with some actors, friends, and relatives.) The humans, as they struggle to construct their reality, seem preoccupied by words, problems, and abstract theories while surrounded by a luminescent reality radiating mysterious objects. The 'Before Need' of the title refers to the signs that mortuaries place on burial plots, gravestones, or urns that have been purchased but are not yet needed."-Dorothy Wiley In reference to Before Need, Carl Henrik Svenstedt commented in Expression, "Suddenly unfolds before one's eyes a pictorial work as taut, complexly rich and beyond verbal logic working as a music piece of Penderecki or Cage. I think this picture web about time and death and language belongs to the most complete (or fully developed) that the experimental film has reached." (c. 40 mins)