This year's festival highlighting films and videos by lesbian and gay artists was held September 9-15 in New York. An excerpt from the Curators' Statement follows: "As the parameters of what is allowed to be seen become narrower and narrower, we have had to adjust our understanding of 'experimental' film to include the wide variety of media and genres that are increasingly excluded from the mainstream. This constriction reinforces our belief that experimental film can only be defined by a highly-aware, politicized and emotionally-engaged community of interests and not by an artificial and impersonal aesthetic preoccupied with editing schemes that alienate the viewer and eliminate pleasure from cinema. Our concern with emotional candor and real freedom connects us with the underground cinema of the sixties which also challenged the boundaries of acceptable subject matter. In the sixties, the boundaries were drawn around the representation of sex. For us, in the Age of AIDS, it has become the representation of sexuality and politics." --Jim Hubbard, Sarah Schulman.