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Throughout a night out in downtown Tijuana, Laura waits for her destiny to arrive.

Marinthia Gutiérrez is a filmmaker from Tijuana, Mexico. She graduated from the UCLA Theater, Film, and Television School in 2018 with a Bachelor’s in Film, emphasizing in narrative directing. Marinthia is drawn to tell stories that are character-driven and introspective in an almost surreal way, visualizing raw emotions through highly stylized images. Her tone can be described as atmospheric magical realism. Marinthia's debut short film, “Ella se queda” (She stays), was the recipient of the 2022 Standard Fantastic Fellowship and it world premiered at Semaine de la Critique - Cannes Film Festival in 2024.

A major figure in the American experimental film movement of the 1960s and '70s and a widely published theorist, Hollis Frampton made such acclaimed and influential films as "Zorns Lemma", the "Hapax Legomena" series, and the unfinished "Magellan". Retrospectives of his work have been shown at the Walker Art Center, the Museum of Modern Art, and elsewhere. The journal "October" twice devoted whole issues to Frampton, and the entire body of his film work is preserved in the Royal Film Archive of Belgium. Frampton taught at the Cooper Union, Hunter College, and the State University of New York in Buffalo. In January 1977, Hollis Frampton appeared on "Screening Room" to discuss his work and to screen "Lemon", "Pas De Trois", excerpts from "Maxwell?s Demon", "Surface Tension", "Critical Mass", and footage from what ultimately became "Magellan".

"Screening Room" was developed and hosted by filmmaker Robert Gardner, who at the time was Director of Harvard's Visual Arts Center, and Chairman of its Visual and Environmental Studies Department. His own films include "Dead Birds" (1964), and "Forest of Bliss" (1986).

In March 1977, Yvonne Rainer appeared on "Screening Room" with film scholar and author Deac Rossell to screen and discuss excerpts from her film "Kristina Talking Pictures". Relentless exploration of the nature of performance, the construction of meaning, and the relations of the sexes has guided Rainer?s long career, first in avant-garde choreography and dance and then in filmmaking. Her honours include Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships along with numerous exhibitions of her work, including recent retrospectives at the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco and at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York. Her other films include "Lives of Performers" (1972), "Film About a Woman Who?" (1974), "The Man Who Envied Women" (1985), "Privilege" (1991), and "MURDER and murder" (1996).

"Screening Room" was developed and hosted by filmmaker Robert Gardner, who at the time was Director of Harvard's Visual Arts Center and Chairman of its Visual and Environmental Studies Department. His own films include "Dead Birds" (1964), and "Forest of Bliss" (1986).

Caroline Leaf?s animated work springs from her expert storytelling and pioneering animation techniques. One significant contribution to filmmaking is her technique of manipulating sand on a light-box, which she began as a student at Harvard. She later worked as an animator and director at the National Film Board of Canada. Her film "The Street" garnered an Academy Award nomination in 1976. On this occasion, she screens the remarkable "The Owl Who Married a Goose: An Eskimo Legend" and parts of "The Street" and "The Metamorphosis" of Mr. Samsa which were works-in-progress at the time. Mary Beams? hand-drawn films carry themes of memory, erotic fantasy and feminism. She taught animation at Harvard from 1972 to 1977, and by 1988, she was a partner in Media Ink, Inc., with a weekly animated political spot on NBC?s Sunday Today Show. She has also taught at the University of South Florida and Northern Illinois University. Here, she screens "The Tub", "Solo Film", "Going Home Sketch-book", "Piano Rub", and her work-in-progress, "Quilt Film".

"Screening Room" was developed and hosted by filmmaker Robert Gardner, who at the time, was Director of Harvard's Visual Arts Center and Chairman of its Visual and Environmental Studies Department. His own films include Dead Birds (1964), and Forest of Bliss (1986).