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San Francisco Cinematheque Number two feature film was George Rait, Sidney Greenstreet. and Peter Lorre in a picture about Istanbul. We saw both of these things six times each during the night. We saw them waking, we heard them sleeping, we sensed them dreaming, we were permeated completely with...this weird dark Myth of the East when morning came. All my actions since have been dictated automatically to my subconscious by this horrible osmotic experience." —Jack Kerouac, On the Road San Francisco resident Gavin Hint is a multimedia artist who makes videos, installations, and books. A continuing theme in his work is language and the way it influences the systems that control our lives. Flint has most recently exhibited videotapes and installations at Artists Space in New York and the Randolph Street Gallery in Chicago, and will open The Doris Day Story at the San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery in January. His book, Vincent's Coloring Book, is being distributed by Printed Matter Bookstore in New York. AL HERNANDEZ / CLAIRE BAIN Filmmakers in person November 18, 1993 Films by Al Hernandez "My films are a tool in the process of self-discovery and growth. A process where imagination and experimentation are gold." — Al Hernandez Jump Fence (in-progress); S-8mm on videotape, sound, 24 minutes "Child abuse, hip hop, virtual reality and organic spirituality are some of the themes that come together in this surreal film of a suburban youth's journey to rebirth." (A.H.) Untitled work in-progress\ 16mm, color, sound, 4 minutes Films by Claire Bain Petroglyph Park (1993); Super-8mm, b&w/color, sound, 12 minutes Petroglyph Park is about a visit home to Albuquerque, New Mexico, last Christmas. We are led through the landscape by my nephew, Marcus, and my sister, Anna. The film shows relationships of camera, subject, family, history, and culture. Marcus narrates about pre-Spanish invasion picture writings in the rock, and shows us modern Christianity at its glitzy extreme in the form of Christmas decorations on my neighborhood houses. (C.B.) Vel and the Bus (1993); Super-8mm. color, sound, 20 minutes Starring Vel Richards, Yolanda Bain, Al Hernandez, David Garden, Tomas Santi, Ken Rosenthal, and others. Vel and the Bus is the heart-rending tale of Vel Richards' brave recovery from a harrowing accident. We join Vel on her subsequent journey along the path of recovery and self-discovery which leads into the full bloom of mid-life. This film is the fourth in a series of Vel movies. (C.B.) Originally from Santa Fe, New Mexico, Claire Bain began making films in 1985 and received a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1989. Vel Richards was born in Hobbs, New Mexico in 1949. She recently quit her job as a typist and is planning to open a laundry. She met Claire Bain at the lunch counter at the original Woolworths at Powell and Market Streets in 1989. Their fruitful collaboration has yielded four films thus far.