Erin Sax (SF) and Ariana Gertsein (Chicago) are two young filmmakers who have made films of exceptional poise and maturity. The films of Erin Sax explore the human body as a vessel for transmitting the frustration and fear of communication, memory and mortality. She will present three recent films —Receiving Sally (1992), Each Evening (1993), and Seven of Worlds (1993)—that form a trilogy examining the progression of time and the poetics of loss. Arianna Gerstein’s sensuous Recovering the Silence of Falling (1994) skillfully collages chemically manipulated, physically altered, and insect-encrusted found footage and original material to create a stunning lyric ballet of sculpted light and rhymed thought.