The three videos on this program all deal with the representation of women, but in very different ways. Fred Camper, Chicago Reader May 21, 1996

Old Wordly, by Leslie Thornton and Anouk de Clercq, consists of 50s girlie films--fully clothed women doing exotic dances--presented with only a little reediting. Seeing them back-to-back focuses one's attention not only on the way they depict women as objects of desire but also on their repetitive, low-resolution video system called Pixelvision--Swallow displays images that Subrin shot and also ones borrowed from mass media to depict a young woman's battle with anorexia. The film's diverse narrative threads are haunted by an underlying theme of failure, the inability to live comfortably in one's body or the world. The collage form and multiple formats become metaphors for the protagonist's confusions, and the work's constant visual shifts create an emotional whirlwind--as embodied in a shot in which a child's room suddenly has its contents sucked out, toys flying through the air as if in a tornado, the world now utterly centerless."