This collection of animated and optically manipulated films investigates unsolved crimes and medical mysteries. Celia Galan Julve creates a stop-motion work of art with Historia del desierto (U.K./Spain, 2002, 6 mins, In Spanish with English subtitles, Color). This striking “documentary” reveals the brutal crimes of fictitious character Rosita Guzman, a.k.a La Mocha, who kept the police and her acquaintances guessing about her dexterous abilities for over forty years. Performance artist, puppeteer, and filmmaker Nancy Andrews's new film Monkeys and Lumps (U.S., 2003, 38 mins, B&W) chronicles Ima Plume, a public illustrator or “chalk-talk specialist.” In her spare time, Plume examines nonhuman life forms called “globsters.” Andrews successfully combines intricate and beautifully rendered hand-drawn animation and puppetry with live-action elements and optically printed found footage of Jane Goodall. With biting humor and dry sarcasm, Anorexie (Jenni Tietze, Germany, 1999, 13 mins, In German with English subtitles, Color) is not a typical film about eating disorders: Tietze posits anorexia as a murderer with the organization United Diets as its accomplice. Carolina Esparragoza's Monstruo (Mexico, 2002, 2:22 mins, Color, Mini DV) imagines a monster's funeral. Sarah Jane Lapp's 1,500 simple and stunning drawings combined with Mark Dresser's contrabass solo score bring to life a set of ill-equipped lungs in Chronicles of an Asthmatic Stripper (U.S., 2002, 5 mins, Color, 35mm). This program also includes the optically printed Cut Snip Ooze (Marianna Ellenberg, U.S., 2003, 5 mins, Color) and Cows (Gabriela Golder, Argentina, 2002, 4 mins, Color, Beta SP, Courtesy Groupe Intervention Vidéo).