Guest Curator: Jerry Tartaglia Selections from the Fourth New York Lesbian and Gay Experimental Film Festival. The opening statement for the festival highlights its concerns: "...(W)e feel very strongly that there is much more interesting and important work being made that is never even considered for government funding because it unabashedly concerns itself with the lives of lesbians and gay men and people of color. Therefore, this festival is a tribute to the vast majority of gay and lesbian artists who have created emotional, political, and formally inventive work without the support of the corporate/media/government complex..." --Jim Hubbard and Sarah Schulman I Got This Way From Kissing Girls by Julie Butler (1989, 3 mins, B&W): Women kissing in Santa Cruz. Gay Pride March 1970-71 by Marguerite Paris (1990, 12 mins, Silent): Impressionistic footage from the first Gay Pride march. A Valentine for Nelson by Jim Hubbard (1990, 3 mins): A long-overdue love letter. Everbest, Virgil by Lawrence F. Brose (1990, 10 mins): Portrait of the composer Virgil Thompson set to his Piano Sonata #2. Dreams of Passion by Aarin Burch (1989, 5 mins, Print from Women Make Movies): Two Black women meet in a dance. Mike's Film by David Lamble (1990, 15 mins): Mike's HIV infection is the catalyst for confusion and an honest discussion of top/bottom, masculinity and penetration. Black and White Study by Peter Cramer (1990, 8 mins, Silent, B&W): A study of male nudes. The contrasts of black and white figures creates an effect of sexual and racial union. Final Solutions by Jerry Tartaglia (1990, 10 mins): The gay imagination has no place in a death-dealing consumerist culture. The final solution is management of all situations through assimilation based upon death-terror. Group action depends on the strength of the individual. --Notes from Festival