Local Artists and PMS Co-Director Lisa Austin in Person The locally based Post Modern Sisters, whose directors are filmmakers Lisa Austin and Suzanne Fairfax, present their third program bringing attention to short films by emerging women artists. Bywandering Fields (1993, 8 mins) by Susanne Cockrell creates a melancholy mood with exquisite, sensual images which suggest our longings to know our ancestors and ourselves. Suspended Abbey (1991, 14 mins) by Nicole Tostevin is a shimmering, dream-like journey through a computer-animated medieval monastery. Both haunting and beautiful, the majestic ruins echo with ghostly voices that whisper an eternal and timeless question. In I raise my arm (1993, 10 mins, Silent, B&W) Elise Hurwitz uses text and the physicality of the film medium to explore the interior spaces of the body, creating a rhythmic, meditative experience. Leah Gilliam's Now Pretend (1991, 10 mins, B&W) reflects on issues of racism, history, and identity. In Vital Signs (1991, 10 mins), veteran filmmaker Barbara Hammer uses powerful, optically printed footage to explore and come to terms with the death of a loved one and her own mortality. Jean Cheng, in Across a Paper Ocean (1993, 10 mins ), draws a portrait of her grandmother through dreams and memories. In My Mother, Myself (1992, 14 mins), Paula Froehle's haunting poetry speaks to the insufficiency of words and questions the inevitability of tradition. Erin Sax's Each Evening (1993, 2 mins, B&W) is substituted for Receiving Sally, part of the touring show but which is shown here on November 30.