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Arab/Angel, Aging, Group Shot
Christa Maiwald appears as a child-like image of innocence in Arab/Angel, allowing a faceless, paternal figure to manipulate her with cruel bigotry. In Aging she utilizes the effects of split-screen and fade to draw attention to her changing appearance, presenting a compression of time through technology. Group Shot displays Maiwald and several friends as a set of performers who pose and rearrange themselves seductively as a comment on promotional photography.

• By Christa Maiwald. (1977, 12 mins, color)

I Want to Live in the Country (And Other Romances)
In an unusual autobiographical work, Joan Jonas mixes rural scenes with her own performance environments; meanwhile her narration refers to dreams, superstitions, habits and memories. The juxtaposition of such diverse elements evokes alternating impressions from the audience, metaphorically expressing the desire of the artist to attain an understanding exchange.

• By Joan Jonas. (1977, 30 mins, color)

New Reel
Mixing early radio and television clips, photographs and newspaper headlines, Hermine Freed creates a collage of memorabilia indicative of her personal recollections. Raising questions on the legitimacy of any documented reaction to the past, she draws attention to the fine distinction between fact and fantasy.

• By Hermine Freed. (1977, 15 mins, color)

Siren & Ax
Paul and Marlene Kos present 4 short works in Siren, which appear initially as undisturbed images of natural settings. Later, however, the artists perform within each scene, encouraging the audience to elicit hidden interpretations of the seemingly ordinary. Ax, beginning with a reference to the Donner Expedition, relates the frustration of that attempt to cross the Sierras to a visually striking image of an ax, a figure struggling in snow, and a dinner party. The ax segment, overwhelming with its grating sounds and startling sparks, places physiological stress on the viewer. The other metaphors alternate to lessen the sense of delirium, offering snatches of clarity.

• By Paul and Marlene Kos. (1978, 27 mins, color)