Artist in Person Local filmmaker and teacher at the San Francisco Art Institute, Sandra Davis creates films that are dense poetic constructions. In Preponderance of Evidence (53 mins), she is as interested in a sensual, meditative portrayal of women as in the preserving of complex personal stories of past generations. The textures of women's voices interweave in voice-over while beautifully tactile fragments-of cloth, of landscape, of the body-compose the visuals. Snippets of fifties educational films suggest the context in which gender and sexuality were constructed for both men and women. In a recent series of three shorts, conceived as postcards to herself, Davis further explores complex sound and image relationships. Single words are intermixed with songs by Sarah Vaughn and Chet Baker as the camera explores the light-filled sensual landscape in Au Sud (To the South, 1991-99, 6.5 mins), A la Campagne, à Khan-Tan-Su (Into the Country, to Khan-Tan-Su, 1992-99, 2.5 mins), and Une Fois Habitée (Once Inhabited, 1992-99, 9.5 mins).