Vivian Ostrovsky and Martine Rousset in Person Yann Beauvais' films in Paris. His own films have been said to extend the concept of "expanded cinema" beyond the sixties West Coast notion of a cinema linked to an expanded consciousness, to a concern with expanding the use of the medium itself. Tonight we present two of his recent films, Divers-Epars (1987, 12 mins), a formalist portrait of Florence, London, and particularly Paris, and Spetsai (1989, 15 mins), a diary film in which the addition of text changes the signification of the images. Beauvais has described Vivian Ostrovsky's films as belonging "to two genres developed in experimental film: the filmed journal and the film-collage. Her films deliciously combine these two categories in a dish that eludes any definition or genre. . . With Vivian Ostrovsky, experimental film regains a humor which is often lacking..." (U.S.S.A. (1985, 14 mins, Super-8mm blown up to 16mm), Copacabana Beach (1983, Color, Super-8mm blown up to 16mm), Eat (1988, 15 mins). Martine Rousset will present her recently completed landscape study, Les Heures (1990, 6 mins), and Mansfield K. (1988, 20 mins), an evocation of the writer Katherine Mansfield. Readings from Mansfield's writings are combined with abstracted images of glass which are "read" by the camera, and as described by the filmmaker, "represent the translation of style into light," yielding "a plausible and just metaphor for Mansfield's literary accomplishment."