Deborah Stratman, will present a 33-minute film titled In Order Not To Be Here (2002). Ed Halter of The Village Voice describes the work as "A 16mm symphony of nighttime scenes that lurks through its half-hour like death-metal James Benning." Shot entirely at night, the film confronts the hermetic nature of white collar communities, revealing a peculiarly 21st century hollowness born of our collective faith in safety and technology. Dissecting this fear and its relationship to contemporary suburban design, the film presents images of passive security areas in

sub-divisions, parking lots, and strip-malls as well as images of a fleeing suspect taken with night-vision from a helicopter. The film's recognizable landscape and codes of surveillance footage manipulate viewers' empathy, turning it into a masochistic desire to see their worst fears realized. This is a new genre of horror movie, presenting the suburban locale itself as a parable of neurosis.

Deborah Stratman is a filmmaker and artist based in Chicago, IL. She is currently working on Meet Adiljan (a documentary about muslim Uighur tightrope walkers in western China) and Power/Exchange (a wind-powered public radio tower in Wendover, UT for the Center for Land Use Interpretation). She also teaches – most recently at University of Illinois, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and Cal Arts.Her work has received awards from numerous festivals including Thaw 01 and CinemaTexas. In Order Not To Be Here has recently been added to the lineups at this year's Rotterdam International Film Festival and Sundance Film Festival.