Partially inspired/provoked by music videos, the vignettes in Tom Kalin's (Swoon, Forum 1992) Third Known Nest combine song, images and literary quotations by Virginia Woolf, Patricia Highsmith, Truman Capote, James Baldwin, Alfred Chester and others in provocative ways.

Produced over a period of eight years, the segmentsare unified by dynamic, low-tech black-and-white Super 8 and video imagery as well as by a thematic thread of body and identity politics in the age of AIDS. It's worth the price of admission for the mock serious warning about the dangers of anal intercourse set to snippets of bouncy disco-funk.