For several years, on December 1, PFA and the museum's Education Department have joined to mark the passing of artists who have died of AIDS. Fortunately, this year AIDS did not have the impact in the film community that it has had in previous years. But mourning the losses to AIDS has taught our community much about preserving and honoring the legacies of artists. So, while continuing to take this day to reflect upon those artists lost to AIDS, this year we take the opportunity to remember film and video artists, friends and sources of inspiration, whom we have lost to other causes. Local author Kathy Acker's writings, including the recent Bodies of Work: Essays, Eurydice in the Underworld, and Pussycat Fever, explore sexuality and violence. Excerpts are included, along with writings by the Marquis de Sade and Steven Shaviro, in Peggy Ahwesh's hauntingly beautiful and disturbing Nocturne. Christine Tamblyn, also of the Bay Area, was an important cultural critic, writer, and artist. Her CD-ROM Archival Quality, completed after her death by Paul Tompkins, includes her extensive diaries dating back to age eleven. Austrian filmmaker Kurt Kren last visited the Bay Area in 1994, when he presented a retrospective of his works which vary between small, poetic experiments and records of taboo-breaking performances. The highly influential Cuban filmmaker Santiago Alvarez pioneered the use of found footage in experimental newsreels. Canadian filmmaker Joyce Wieland's disarmingly simple and intimate explorations evoke a tender feeling for the details of daily life. Francis Lee was an early pioneer of abstract expressionism and experimental filmmaking.-Kathy Geritz, Steve Seid