Exploring and interpreting modern metropolitan existence from divergent perspectives, this showcase reflects the textured milieu of contemporary urban life and culture. Social Interaction Study (Eric Leppo, c. 10 mins) is a cool meditation on the varied visual and psychological perspectives of urbanites. Territorial Pissings (Nathan Johnson, 6 mins) exposes the shrouded world of graffiti. Light, decay, and time-lapse photography characterize Tracking (Therese Tierney, 4 mins). Andrés Cediel's documentary on remaining traces of Native American life, Shellmound (21 mins), promises to permanently alter the experience of shopping at Emeryville's Bay Street Mall. Trauma (Terry Patton, 4 mins) is a hypnotic postmodern exploration of sampling and layering. Of Rats and Men (Sophia D'Arbone, Kathy Maloney, Nathan Skelton, 16 mins) takes viewers on a ride with the East Bay Rats motorcycle gang. Downtown 2AM (Connor Snedecor, 4 mins, B&W) cleverly blends themes of time-shifting, video technology, and criminality in a self-reflexive stylization. Translate (Jamila Pierson-Jase, 4 mins) is an overtly political treatise that reflects the polemical potency of the music video form.