Haynes, Todd

1987

Yu, Taiyang

1987

McLaughlin, Sheila

1987

She Must Be Seeing Things, Sheila McLaughlin's first feature, is both very personal and nearly universal in its understanding of the dynamics of intimate relationships. Funny, touching, and very real, the story of Agatha, a lawyer, and Jo, her filmmaker girlfriend, is a deft exploration of jealousy's effect on a lesbian relationship.  Throughout the film Jo and Agatha's professional lives pose a striking contrast to the intimacy of their life together. The tension of their sexual attraction for each other and the details of that intimacy become a framework for the film's more explicit narrative. At the same time, the strength of their feelings comes to constitute a parallel drama—one that starts a dialogue with the current debates over women's sexuality in the ‘80s as well as with current theories on the nature of voyeurism in contemporary cinema. Sheila McLaughlin comes from the world of downtown New York theater, where she performed in the 197's with Richard Foreman's "Ontological Hysterical Theatre" company. Her first short film, Inside Out, screened at the Berlin Film Festival in 1978. Her most recent film, Committed, based on the life of Frances Farmer, was codirected wth Lynne Tillman. McLaughlin played Justin, the dazzling blonde seductreess in the hit of the 1985 festival, Seduction: The Cruel Woman.  Sheila Dabney (Agatha) and Lois Weaver (Jo) are both Obie Award–winning actresses and McLaughlin has gathered a crew for She Must Be Seeing Things of equal stature. Director of Photography Mark Daniels shot Yvonne Rainer's The Man Who Envied Women. while well-known German filmmaker Heinz Emigholz shot the integral period film-within-the-film segments. Acclaimed composer John Zorn makes his movie debut with his score, the sound-editing was done by Margie Crimmins, who worked on the Oscar-winning Witness to War, and the art director was Leigh Kyle, who did the art direction on Lizzie Borden's Working Girls.

Fishel, Deirdre

1987

McAlpin, Loring

1992

From New York, Gangtime tells the stories of our generation—coming out, cheap sex, first dates—with terrific, snappy style.

Bressan, Arthur

Kan-Ping, Yu

1987

1987

Ivory, James

1987

Rozema, Patricia

1987