The Bay Area features prominently in Joe Gibbons's latest epic, an autobiographical look back at his life as seen through his Super-8mm and video works of the last twenty-five years. Witty and revelatory, Confessions of a Sociopath, Part One (c. 45 mins) is a series of obsessive monologues in which Gibbons seeks to understand what makes him tick…or indeed whether he does tick. A transgressor from way back (he cut his hair and wore button-down shirts in the sixties), alcohol and drugs fuel his grandiose musings, which spiral from the heights of his liberation of a painting from a local museum to the depths of his career as a shoplifter. Phone calls to his parole officer and mandated visits to a psychiatrist provide further opportunity for Gibbons to examine his self-destructive life, recalling at one point the words of the great philosopher George Kuchar: “Only through sickness can we know what true health is.”