Preceded by short:The Horror (Emily Breer & Joe Gibbons, 1997). Who said "napalm is the smell of victory?" It wasn't Gibbons, but he said something similar. (1:30 mins, Color, 3/4" video, From the artists)Raymond Pettibon, known to many through his association with Mike Watt, Sonic Youth, Mike Kelley, and others, is a master of the deadpan drama. In a fit of productivity, he spent a year thrashing through the radical sub-cultures of the seventies, making droll farces about the Manson family, the Weather Underground, and the Symbionese Liberation Army. Citizen Tania takes on Patty Hearst (Shannon Smith) as a manufactured anti-celeb whose bourgeois truculence eventually ravages the SLA. "Whoever we pick, we'll make a star," says Cinque (Pat Ruthensmear), field marshall to a pack of absurdist wannabe-revolutionaries. Intentionally raw, Pettibon's gnawing narrative sketches Patty's abduction by the SLA and her ensuing transformation into a radical robbery baron. But try as they may, the SLA can never break Tania of her petty upbringing. When she's not whining about the collective toothbrush, or reading purloined copies of Cosmopolitan, she's cunningly sleeping with the enemy.-Steve Seid