" W O M E N ' S W O R K "

A feature-length compilation of short films that portray different stages in life from a woman's point of view.

Cuba 15
USA, 1997, 16mm, Color, 13 min.
World Premiere

Director: Elizabeth Schub
Producer: Pedro Valiente
Cinematographers: Luis Nagmias, Ivan Suzzarini
Editor: Elizabeth Schub Music: El Doctor V. Musica
Principal Cast: Tzunami Ortega Coyra

Tzunami, a small-town Cuban girl, prepares for her quinceanera-the celebration of her fifteenth birthday-the official crossroads between innocence and maturity.

Didactic Encounter
USA, 1997, 35mm, Color, 14 min.

Director: Alexandra S. Brodsky
Producer: Evan T. Cohen
Executive Producer: Alexandra S. Brodsky
Cinematographer: Garrett Fisher
Editor: Jessica Landaw Screenwriters: Elizabeth Benjamin, Alexandra S. Brodsky
Music: Princess Superstar
Principal Cast: Jennifer Albano, Matthew Dawson

With the aid of an interpersonal game-a throwback to the 1970's encounter groups-Kym and Brad get to know each other.

Girl
U.S., 1997, 16mm, Color, 16 min.

Director, Producer, Screenwriter: Amanda Michener
Cinematographer: Cornelius Schultze-Craft
Editor: John Walter
Music: Sam Bisbee
Principal Cast: Jennifer Albano, Beverly Morris,
Ali Marsh, Julie Entwistle, Brooke Berman

A girl knows just what it will take to get her lonely, depressed mom out of her funk...and gives it to her.

Immer Zu
USA, 1997, 16mm, B&W, 8 min.
World Premiere

Director, Producer, Cinematographer, Editor: Janie Geiser
Music: Sound Collage by Mark McElhatten

An animated film noir which evokes a mysterious, undercover world of secret messages, cryptic language, and indecipherable codes. Immer Zu uses miniature two and three-dimensional figures and sets, as well as shadow puppetry, to suggest the urgency of a nocturnal mission.

See You On Monday
USA, 1996, 16mm, B&W, 11 min.
World Premiere

Director: Irena Salina
Producer: John Gavin
Cinematographer: Adolfo Doring Editors: Duncan Pettignew, Irena Salina
Screenwriter: Irena Salina
Music: Ed Bilous
Principal Cast: Maria Yacoblev, Jimmy Gilroy

A prim, middle-aged shopkeeper closes up shop and walks to a nearby apartment, where she fastidiously prepares for her lover. The clearly habitual, mechanical and loveless nature of her weekly rendezvous turns See You on Monday into a black comedy about repetition in daily life.

Smokes
Fumees
France, 1997, 35mm, Color, 7 min.
World Premiere

Director, Screenwriter: Tristan De Fontvieille
Cinematographer: Phillipe Bouillet
Editor: Anita Vilfrid
Music: Nicolas Volte
Principal Cast: Jennie Dallery, Jean-Paul Bouyrelou

After a night of lovemaking, a woman awakes to see her lover sneaking out the door. He holds up an empty pack of cigarettes to indicate that he's going to the store and will return shortly. But he never does.