Cinematography: Lambert Yam; Music: Darryl Cobb; featuring songs by "If Then Why" and Lisa Baney; Starring: Tom Provenzano, Jennifer Wilbur, Jesse Weems, Deborah Asante, Lisa Baney, Peter Herman.
ANY GIVEN WORLD is the story of a man on a submarine four years after the end of the world with nothing to do all day but watch the same videocassette of commercial television over and over. As a result he remembers all his friends as if they were in commercials on late night television. The film includes a 20-minute flashback equating architecture with nuclear war, a real time crossing of the Richmond/San Rafael Bridge, a concert in a post-nuclear parking lot, and a dance on an unfinished freeway. The plot centers on the use of a nuclear power plant to restrict civil liberties in San Francisco just before Armageddon.
Exhibition: Roxie Theater, SF; Haverford College, PA; University of Chicago; Stanford University; St. Peter's College, NJ.
1982, 16mm, color/so, 75m, $115
Music by Mike Land and Bryan Simmons; Starring Susan Todd, Cynthia McVay, George Melrod, Byron Atwood.
NO THANKSGIVING FOR RED is the story of a woman wandering the streets. She cannot remember what her mother's face looked like even though she was the one who discovered her mother's body at the base of the stairs at the age of fourteen. A dark, brutally comic film told through jagged cutting and imagery: the execution of a teddy bear, the sales clerk reading National Enquirer, the walk in the snow to the tune of Pachelbel's Canon being mutilated with a knife.
Award: Selected as one of the ten best experimental films from the Western US (1982) by Showest.
Exhibition: LA Filmforum; Roxie Theater Midnight Show, SF; Harvard University.
1982, 16mm, b&w/so, 12m, $35