Should anyone require a lesson in the transformative power of video as a medium for self-expression, then the annual PFA show of student work offers just such instruction. Here it is possible to see the creativity of students on dynamic display as the cream of the crop (according to the increasingly savvy student curators) hits the big screen. Given the infamous dearth of production training and equipment at Berkeley, how do they do it? It's a mystery to me. But they do, each year, more and more of them. And in the films and videotapes that they produce it is possible to find the range of imagination and life experience of a generation. I love this show better than any of the film festivals I attend. Don't miss it.
-Author and film professor B. Ruby Rich