Chicago Filmmakers invites you to "celebrate Valentine's Day early" with this program of diverse film and video erotica. Fred Camper, Chicago Reader February 9, 1996

Even creepier is Jacob Pander's infrared video The Operation, in which surgery becomes explicit lovemaking, carefully edited and almost balletically choreographed. The infrared camera makes the lovers' skin seem both opaque and translucent, giving it a space-alien feel. Also showing is some historical erotica--porno cartoons, a laughable "psychedelic" lesbian reel, and women doing solo dances with feathery fans moved to stimulate labia. None of these were made as "art," but they often seem eerily connected to Ahwesh's anonymous bodies or Pander's calculated formalism. Eroticism is never presented as anything other than a matter of anonymous physicality, but I liked the unexpected connections the juxtapositions fostered. Though the programmer seems not to have grasped the basic concept of Valentine's Day, if you're thinking of calling one of those services that'll send a bouquet of dead roses to your ex, you might want to take him or her to this show instead.