Three potent videoworks look at the (im)possibility of justice as it materializes in the African American community. In Portia Cobb's No Justice...No Peace (1992, 14 mins), young black men talk about police brutality, institutional racism and the media's impact, all backlit by last year's L.A. rebellion. Cobb heightens her verite work with the chant, "56 times in 81 seconds," referring to the violence perpetrated against Rodney King. Thalia Drori's Adam Abdul Hakeem: One Who Survived (1992, 40 mins) tells the story of Adam Abdul Hakeem, the first person in American history to be found innocent by reason of self-defense in a police shooting. Combining personal interviews, media coverage, and prison surveillance footage, Drori's documentary tracks the courage of this inner-city youth as he frees himself from a police-run drug ring. At the core of Lawrence Andrews's Black and Silver Horses (1993, 30 mins) is a case of mistaken identity-a black youth is wrongly accused of a crime, railroaded, then jailed. But around this hub of injustice whirls a meditation on eternal wrongdoing. Using mythologic metaphors, Andrews obliquely describes the expulsion from the (white patriarchal) Garden. The details of contemporary injustice serve to solidify the age-old lock-out from innocence. - Steve Seid