With the notable exception of Stan Brakhage, whose beautiful handpainted Coupling (1999, 4.5 mins, Color) will be presented, the artists in tonight's program will be largely unknown to our audience. Their haunting works resonate with emotions which fluctuate between doubt and anger, anxiety and disappointment, yet they also suggest the beauty to be found in passions. Paula Froehle's poetic, fragmented Fever (1998, 6 mins, Color/B&W) deliriously suggests a child's illness as disjointed, distorted sounds and images multiply and shimmer. Margaret Jamieson's enigmatic The Strange and the Charm: or How to Still Your Waters and Re-Gain Your Gravity (1998, 8 mins, Color) explores connections between magnetism, gravity, memory, and other charms to ward off malaise. Tending Echo Park by Monica Gazzo (1999, 16 mins, Color) reverberates with remembrances from the 1900s and the turn of this century. Lyrical images and writings from Antonin Artaud, Gertrude Stein, Joan La Barbara, as well as from the filmmaker's diaries, are woven into what the filmmaker terms an "écriture féminine." Neil Goldberg's (My Parents Read Dreams I've Had About Them) (1998, 8.5 mins, Color, Video) is at once a disturbing and moving fulfillment of its title. Nancy Andrews's quirky and charming puppets lead solitary and eccentric lives. Her most recent character is Hedwig Page, Seaside Librarian (1999, 35 mins, B&W/Color), who loves research, cataloging, and inventing. Her rather unexciting life from childhood to retirement is out of step with modern life, yet her world, largely of her own invention, is mysterious and wondrous.-Kathy Geritz