She Rhymes Like a Girl, March 10

Artists in Person

Film is the playground of reinvention in tonight's works that deconstruct history, rewrite archaic fairy tales, and energetically shape the future. Photographers and hip-hop wordsmiths navigate New York's urban maze in two videos that embody every artist's struggle for recognition, Perros sin amor and She Rhymes Like a Girl. Spirited young women in Chicago challenge misconceptions about living with disabilities in Beyond Disability. Age and limited English do not slow down Grandma Kim, an activist who marches so that Los Angeles's Metro es para todos (is for everybody). Undaunted by the popularity of certain cultural icons, Little Red and the Big Red Book and Columbus on Trial are irreverent visions of a world free of big bad wolves. Rather than retelling her past, the narrator of Paper, Scissors and Rock looks ahead, showing that sometimes change means trading in a wedding band for a different kind of rock—punk rock.

—Eileen Koh, Jooyeon Nam

• Perros sin amor (Loveless Dogs, Christina Soto, 2006, 6 mins). Come On Big Empty (Kirthi Nath, Amanda Davidson, 2006, 11.5 mins). She Rhymes Like a Girl (JT Takagi, 2005, 7 mins, From Third World Newsreel). Beyond Disability: The Fe Fe Stories (produced by Beyondmedia Education, 2004, 26 mins, From Beyondmedia Education). Little Red and the Big Red Book (Hélène Park, 2006, Silent, 5 mins). Columbus on Trial (Lourdes Portillo, 1992, 18 mins, In English and Spanish with English subtitles, From Xochitl Films). Finding Common Ground in New Orleans (Walidah Imarisha, 2006, 7 mins, From the artist). Paper, Scissors and Rock (Jane Kim, Canada, 2005, 4 mins, From Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre). Metro es para todos (Eurie Chang, 2006, 10 mins, In English and Korean with English subtitles)

• (Total running time: 94 mins, U.S., Color, Video, From the artists, unless indicated otherwise)