Marc Lafia

An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay.

A tale of love, lust, and radical politics in the city. Lizzy, a young woman from Eastern Europe, arrives in NYC to become an actress and finds herself working at a Russian grocery store. Soon, she meets Taja, a free minded ultra radical art performer, who wants to spread the seeds of freedom, love and anti consumerist society on the streets of NYC. Before long, Lizzy finds herself on a wild ride of desire and revolution.

In this film 9 women record themselves being alone. At times they get together as an experimental arts collective hotly debating the value of their private work and whether to do public performances. Two of them fall in love. One becomes obsessed with the other and simultaneously imagines an idealized love while the other wants her to find the revolutionary part of herself. Revolution of Everyday Life is a document of actresses playing actresses who play characters that fall in love. It is at the same time a love story that happens in the realm of fiction and in the realm of recorded reality. The result is a documentary film within a fictional one. The film becomes a site not for representation but discovery. It is a structure for things to happen, it becomes the site for performing, not acting, not re-presenting desire, but to enact it - it is a longing for politic of desire and an expression of its urgency.

A young man ditches the real world for that of film, but eventually comes to realize that running away is no substitute for the sublime beauty of everyday life. When Hilbert's father has a near-fatal heart attack, he falls into a downward spiral of introspection, re-evaluating and restructuring his life. The despondent young man turns away from his family and his girlfriend toward the comfort of an alternative world. Taking up residence in a cheap, downtown San Francisco hotel, he experiments with drugs and bisexuality and art. On an 8mm projector, he obsessively analyzes home movies from his childhood, comparing these films with his recollections of his youth. Memory and desire- spawned from what he imagined was reality versus what he sees in these movies -encourage Hilbert to create his own film, to re-write the past and blow the Oedipal triangle apart.

UCLA Student Film, Preserved by the UCLA Film and Television Archive. An experimental short about a man who travels into Los Angeles and falls in love.