Works by Su Friedrich, Lynn Hershman and Isaac Julian For tonight's program, Marlon Riggs has selected contemporary media works that have inspired his own efforts. These works were chosen for their personal points of view as well as their innovative formal qualities. Young soul rebel Isaac Julian, whose pioneering Looking for Langston was released the same year as Tongues Untied, is represented by his newest work, The Attendant (1993, 8 mins, 35mm), a beautifully rendered account of desire, race, and the framing of history. Lynn Hershman's First Person Plural (1989, 26 mins, 3/4" Video) clearly looks at the family as a system for the transmission of values. The internal turmoil of childhood is told through the unflinching voice of the artist. The family is again taken up in Su Friedrich's Sink or Swim (1990, 48 mins, B!W, 16mm), a series of twenty-six alphabetically correct vignettes. Interior preoccupation fills the void of physical absence in this lyrical work about the fleeting father.-Steve Seid