Exclaim Her Limitless Wisdom1984

AUTUMNAL DIPTYCH is not an elegy to decay and death, its title notwithstanding. Every frame conveys joy at being alive (and at making movies).

"In the beginning there was only Chaos." Nocturnal grown-up party scenes alternate with children posing, play-acting and frolicking on a beach.

"Moments chosen for nuclear annihilation... where are you going to run to?" The filmmaker answers his own apocalyptic question with seductive snippets.

A polite graduation ceremony in the San Francisco Art Institute courtyard warps into a tongue-in-cheek horror film and then a parody of television action shows.

VESPUCCILAND, an exuberant and witty dance for the camera, shot in vivid, defiant color, records half a dozen spitfires frolicking on a summer morn.

In something of a cross between a Keystone Kops comedy and an Edwin S. Porter melodrama, Lady Liberty, Justice (with her blindfold and scale) and Death form a love triangle.