Tonight?s program features found footage films by two masters of avant-garde cinema.

These works tease out the shared connections of memory, history and culture in our collective social unconscious; archaeological explorations of an archetypical image reservoir. In The Doctor?s Dream (1978, 23 min.,) Ken Jacobs takes a short television narrative about a country doctor and literally turns it inside out, discovering subtle but powerful, sexual sub-text hidden within the original film?s ability. Perfect Film (1986, 21 min.) consists of T.V. newscast out-takes of events surrounding the Malcolm X assassinations; reprinted as found by Ken Jacobs. Opening the Nineteenth Century: 1896 (1990, 9min) features Jacobs 3-D Pulfrich System applied to near turn of the century footage of Paris, Cairo, and Venice shot by Lumier photographers. Bruce Connor?s classic Report (1963-67, 13 min) and Television Assassination (1963-95, 14 min), his newest film (the first in more than a decade) are profound and poetic investigations of the JFK Assassination and its coverage by the media. These two films are devastating in their impact and constitute Connor?s greatest achievement. All 16 mm.