This is an extraordinary opportunity to see new talents and the fresh visions they offer. These works are impossible to categorize as a group, since UCB student video/filmmakers consistently re-define the term "documentary." Even when using traditional documentary modes, their (visions) are unique. Rain Dance Poetry and My Mother Isn't Chinese are interview-driven documentaries that challenge the status quo by examining social phenomena: the first, Berkeley Professor June Jordan's inventive program "Poetry for the People," and the second, hate crimes against Asians. Karass, My California, and 59th/Dover edge toward the sublime, three filmmakers using experimental techniques that invite the viewer into three completely different moods and worlds, from the deep interior of subjective experience to surreal impressions of a local neighborhood. The makers of Baby Dykes, YCS?, Photographic Memory, and Who Does the Dishes? attempt to make sense of the world around them as a way to understand their place in it, whether through examining perceptions of sexual choices, an exposé of the world inhabited by isolated computer science students, a daughter reflecting on a life-long trail of images of herself left by her photographer-father, or another daughter's contemplation of a time when her family experienced a dramatic change.- Jennifer Paige