Fred Camper will screen and discuss three films that describe suicide as a kind of failure of the self. Each film finds suicide's source in a deep alienation from an indifferent world; the social dimension of this attitude toward society will be explored. Camper also will examine the editing patterns of these films as they relate to the psychology of suicide. The films in the program, avant-garde works from the fifties and sixties, are: Anticipation of the Night by Stan Brakhage, The End by Christopher Maclaine, and 21-87 by Arthur Lipsett. Fred Camper is a writer and lecturer on film, art, and photography who has taught at various colleges and published in Film Culture, Spiral, Artforum, The Chicago Reader, and elsewhere. Anticipation of the Night (Stan Brakhage, 1958, 42 mins, Silent, Color). The End (Christopher Maclaine, 1953, 35 mins, Color/B&W). 21-87 (Arthur Lipsett, 1964, 9.5 mins, B&W).