James Richardson

An animator draws a rat then a cat, who proceed to chase each other through the animator's constantly-changing backgrounds and animation styles.

A cinepoem for women driven to the ground by love, Commiseration Moon stars the founder of Women & Film, Siew Hwa Beh, and poet Tom Cuson, former head of the Coffee Gallery poetry series in San Francisco. A poem from the soundtrack, "The Wet Umbrella," was published in Filmnotes, Melbourne, Australia, Summer 1977.