Films by one of the directors of Hoop Dreams, an Illinois-based film and video maker whose experimental and political interests sometimes inform each other. House of Un-American Activities (1983) is a documentary that mixes personal and public history as it describes the 1956 persecution of Marx’s fathera Jewish refugee from Germany who joined the Communist Party in 1945. Dreams From China was shot while Marx was working as an English teacher in China between 1983 and 1985; the portrait of China it presents is highly personal, full of fascinating details, and, given Marx’s leftist background, unfashionably negative. Also showing are Higher Goals, an offshoot of Hoop Dreams, about a children’s program; Jail Vision, an excerpt from a play written and acted by Cook County Jail inmates; and excerpts from works in progress. (JR) Marx will attend the screening.