In A Western, Laurie Dunphy collages educational documentaries, news footage and other found materials to reveal the economic interests behind the forced sterilization of women in Puerto Rico. As her title suggests, this is yet another episode in the ongoing saga of "how the west is won," regardless of cost. Jerry Tartaglia's A.I.D.S.C.R.E.A.M. is an aggressive critique of the social treatment of AIDS, attacking the medical world's use of AIDS to desexualize gay male culture and lamenting the death of friends from the disease. The film material itself was hand processed and treated so that the image appears unstable and at times seems to be destructing before our eyes, powerfully evoking the effect of the virus. In Reverse Transcriptase, Sandy Moore demystifies the scientific transcription for AIDS by assigning a cartoon image to each unit of the DNA compound of the HIV virus. While the resulting dizzying representation of the virus uses an accessible, understandable "language," her selection of images-ropes, pulleys, lances-suggests a fragile mechanism under attack. Public spaces are the backdrops for a series of dances which filmmaker Henry Hill fragments and rhythmically rearranges in SSS. The accompanying music track was improvised, then it too was broken into pieces and recomposed. Hill not only claims the world as a stage, colliding dance and daily life, but his film is a celebration of improvisation and collaboration, shunning the repeatable, complete performance for an energetic, disruptive art. In Australian filmmaker Stephen Cummins' super-8 film Le Corps Imag? the body literally becomes a screen as images of bodies are projected onto it. The dreamlike rhythm of changing bodies and images suggests the fluid nature of identity as it is both personally and socially imagined. In Body Politic (god melts bad meat) filmmaker Betzy Bromberg raises economic, moral and ethical questions relating to attitudes towards the body, energetically editing together disparate views so that ideas and attitudes seem to collde and bounce off each other. Kathy Geritz