Artists in Person InLeslie Alperin's sideTRACKED (c. 22 mins, Color), a woman whose presenceis articulated solely through voice (one track of the film strip)travels to Europe. Exquisite optically printed images (the other trackof the film strip) are intercut with found footage and Viewmaster cardsto suggest the idealized image the traveler seeks. But as the titleindicates, it is through partial and incomplete communications, ahalting conversation in a partially learned language, a quarrel with alover who is almost a stranger, and memories of romantic travel filmsseen in childhood, that the traveler experiences Europe. Veronika Soul'sUnknown Soldiers (40 mins, Color) is a dense weaving of discoursesaround language and the possibility of communicating meaning acrosscultures. The film opens with an Asian American soldier giving a radiobroadcast from Chicago during World War II. The words seem to come froma scratchy recording which he reanimates through lip synching. Thesoldier's reminiscences take on particular resonance when, later in thefilm, he reads from a book of Japanese children's memories of the atomicbomb. This sort of displacement and disjunction occurs throughout thefilm, which is about a kind of travel between East and West. Differencesare overlapping, rather than exclusive, as is apparent in Soul's fluid,beautifully optically printed collage. --Kathy Geritz