Tonight, you, the viewer, are the detective. The films share a modus operandi: all are concerned with the act of detecting. World in Focus (Vincent Grenier, 1976, 16.5 mins, Color, Silent) is a study of an object, the identity of which is slowly comprehended. But ultimately, the depiction of the world-our relationship to images-is the object of Grenier's investigation. In the delightful trick film Slippery Jim (Ferdinand Zecca, c. 1910, 9 mins, Silent, B&W), the criminal won't stay caught. Site Film #110A (Bill Simonett, 1988, 8 mins, Color) is a landscape film depicting the sights and sound of deserts in Nevada, Utah and Arizona. Through titles, Simonett reveals each location's hidden history-all are sites of military tests not subject to public monitoring. Composed entirely of found footage, Donna Cameron's Falcon (1987, 13 mins, Color) is a short document on falconry in Kuwait. Using classical editing-which foregrounds the content of film material and effaces the manipulation of it-Cameron "hides" her film work, the creation of a film from a film. The viewer is left with the task of discovering what has been ellipsed and elided. We conclude with a rare screening of Charles Dekeukelaire's Histoire de Détective. "The film presents itself as the record of a case made by a detective T, who uses the motion picture camera as his investigative tool. Aside from a few short scenes of T at work in his developing, editing and viewing rooms, all the shots (except intertitles) purport to come from T's work. Histoire de Détective is thus a film within a film, and the intertitles tell us the story, not simply of the case, but also of T's filming of the case... The overall result (...) is a film which seems almost to have an invisible narrative. The titles make the story line clear enough, but in watching the film the spectator cannot really see the narrative being worked out...(A)s one strains to discover the narrative significance of these shots, their very opacity makes them intriguing" (Kristin Thompson, Millennium, Nos. 7/8/9). Kathy Geritz