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Henry Hills presents a program of short works:

George (1976/1990, 5 min.); Gotham (1990, video, 3 min.);
A New Life (1989/1999, video, 18 min.); Porter Springs 2 (1976, 9 min.);
 Porter Springs 3
(1977, 7 min.); Porter Springs 4 (1999, 15 min.);
Goa Lawah (1992, 5 min.), Little Lieutenant (1995, 7 min.)

George is a single-frame portrait of Kuchar; Gotham is a music video commissioned by Elektra Records for the Naked City song "Batman", drawing heavily on themes from Weegee's photographs, Hollywood gangster movie outtakes and documentary excerpts; Porter Springs 2, 3 & 4 are comprised of "footage shot on summer vacation in the North Georgia mountains over 20 years, with audio composed from the video sync, ambient records, a tape I made in high school of my uncle telling stories and playing piano, and selections from this record collection. My father growing old, my only footage of my dead sister and grandmother and of my log cabin, which was struck by lightning and burned to the ground in 1990, memories of my two ex's, eternal nature, endless walks in the woods, building my new cabin and dreamtime there, and various typical family scenes, assembled and presented in the rhythms of my mind and body"; Goa Lawah details a sacred bat-cave in Bali; Little Lieutenant looks back at the late Weimar era with its struggles and celebrations leading up to world war. Scored to John Zorn's arrangement of the Kurt Weill song "Little Lieutenant of the Loving God" and drawing its imagery both from the original song and its somewhat idiosyncratic rearrangement, the film presents an internal reading of Silvers' solo scored to the same musical piece, 'Along the Skid Mark of Recorded History'.