“The second and third programs (see May 15, 3:00) feature classic and contemporary filmmakers whose works are among those which represent California as a major gathering place for makers of this art form. Freude Bartlett's Folly (Bride & Groom) (1972) is a short, ironic statement on the nature of repetition in women's, or anyone's, lives. Patterns of repetition is a central theme in Sandra Davis' Maternal Filigree (1980), which explores in fluid form the patterns of development through the awesome, terrifying, but beautiful feminine cycle of sexuality - birth - death. Ruby Yang's Nowhere (1979) is a film which simply and complexly ‘Brushes with light and frames with sound.' A return to a formal, ritualized environment of film is evidenced by Barbara Linkevitch in Chinamoon (1975), a film that deals specifically with female camaraderie in a timeles, nameless brothel; a tender, sensitive vision of the tragic wastefulness of the lives of the women portrayed. A change of pace and wit are found in Lynn Kirby's CC Beam Goes for a Walk - how to take a cat for a walk? In a wonderfully jewel-colored work of the imagination, Asparagus (1974-78) by Suzan Pitt is ‘an erotic allegory of the creative process' which in its masterful cell-animation technique also explores a theme important in many of the leading films by women: the passages and interrelationships of sensual and artistic discovery. Inspired by Merleau-Ponty's statement ‘there is a perpetual uneasiness in the state of being conscious,' Valley Fever (1978) by Stephanie Beroes, deals with questions of perception and personal viewpoint in strangely hallucinatory images of desert palms, swimming pools and American suburban landscape.” --Sandra Davis