The conventions of mainstream media are so familiar to us that we sometimes have trouble identifying them, much less escaping them. The projects selected for this evening's program represent the efforts of Berkeley students in Film and Art, using equipment and resources of varying sophistication, to create works that challenge traditional modes of representation. The results are unique, beautiful, and thought provoking. The films present subjects as wide ranging as personal pain and struggle (Loss by Jason Domina and Step 3 by Kate Winters), social criticism (Diddy Kong Overkill by Thomas Lee), stories of obsessive adolescent lust (The Girl Who Would Do Anything by Brett Simon), and dreamlike portraits of the world (Transfer by Bijan Yashar and All There Is To Do by Ta'Nai Drayton). Tying these films together is their willingness to seek out new forms of expression and to question standard methods of cinematic representation along with the society that has produced them. Participating students come the Film Studies Program, the Art Department, and from the Center for Digital Art and New Media Research in the Art Department.Michael Wilson is a filmmaker, a graduate student in Cinema Studies at SFSU, and a teacher's assistant in the UCB Film Studies Program. Gabriel Peters-Lazaro is a junior filmmaker at Cal studying English and Film. Organic Machinery (Deanna Bernard, 5 mins). Glass (Ted Voelkel, 3.5 mins). Step 3 (Kate Winters, 3:30 mins, Color/B&W). Untitled (Noah Moskin, 5 mins). Transfer (Bijan Yashar, 4:30 mins). Diddy Kong Overkill (Thomas Lee, 3 mins, work-in-progress). Ojos (Vince Navarro, 2 mins). Spleen (Antje Cranmer, 2 mins). Eh Dollface? (Kat Shuchter, 4 mins). The Girl Who Would Do Anything (Brett Simon, 7:30 mins). Tenderness (Sara Pelligrini, 3 mins, B&W). A Dream on the Metro (Michelle Peerali, 5 mins). Silence (Kenneth Pearce, 1:30 mins). Loss (Jason Domina, 3 mins, B&W, Super 8). 12 Year Old Caucasian Male (Gabriel Peters-Lazaro, 4:30 mins). All There Is To Do (Ta'Nai Drayton, 5 mins).