New York/New Landscapes: Narrative Short Films by Women

Five films from the New York City area variously explore everyday journeys through a small-town K-Mart, a bleak snow-covered New Jersey trucking terminal, New York's bustling Chinatown. These landscapes, routine and bizarre, tragic and humorous, are rendered as reflections of the characters' inner world, where ordinary objects and actions take on new meanings. Ping Pong (1996, 4 mins, B&W) is no longer a simple game in Lisa Robinson's look at sibling relations. The intricacies of jump-roping become the formula for friendship in Caran Hartsfield's Double-Handed (1997, 12 mins, Color/B&W). The contours of bald heads and industrial trucks are symbols of desire in Lisa Robinson's Heads, Tires & Other Studies (1997, 14 mins, Color). A love triangle in Chinatown is shaped by take-out food, pregnancy tests, and chance encounters in Ayana Osada's Love Story (1997, 20 mins, B&W). And the hyper-consumer aisles of K-Mart overwhelm a hard-working mother in Debra Granik's Snake Feed (1997, 23 mins, Color).Lisa Robinson is a graduate of UC Berkeley's Film Studies Program, and is currently attending New York University's Graduate Film Program, where all the films in this evening's program were produced.

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