Preceded byshorts: Voices of the Morning (Meena Nanji, 1992).South Asian in origin, Nanji has fashioned a sublime workabout a woman's resistance to the acculturative forces of Islam.Rejecting the role of dutiful daughter or wife, she seeks a liberatedspace outside of convention. (13:40 mins, Color, 3/4" video, FromVideo Data Bank) Hajj (drinking from the stream) (Claire Dannenbaum,1992). Through a deconstructed ethnography, this work discovers acts ofresistance in the lives of Turkish and Kurdish women that create minuteruptures in patriarchal culture. (20 mins, B&W, 16mm, From theartist) The culmination of a year-long residency inIstanbul, Jeanne Finley's new work, Conversations Across the Bosphorous,intertwines the narratives of three women from Istanbul who discuss howtheir relationship to their faith shapes and determines their personallives. One of the women, who left Istanbul ten years ago, writes fromSan Francisco of her memories of growing up in a city that since herdeparture has gone through a radical transformation in politicalstructure, population growth, and environmental destruction. The othertwo women, living in the Istanbul of today, which is slowly being tornin a struggle to maintain its secular government against the expansionof Islamic Fundamentalist power, reveal how their lives reflect thislarger cultural struggle. The notion of peaceful coexistence betweengroups with opposing ideologies in today's Istanbul contrasts with thenostalgic memories of a city whose foundation was built around theBosphorous, the narrow waterway that divides the Asian and Europeancontinents.