Beside a freeway overpass in San Francisco once lay an unlikely project known as The Farm. Under the inspired guidance of Mime Troupe veteran Jack Wickert and performance artist Bonnie Sherk, an abandoned industrial lot was transformed into a multicultural arts center, complete with barnyard animals and a community garden. Kathy Katz's home-grown The Farm (45 mins) traces this agri-urban mecca as it evolved from a mid-seventies arts environment emphasizing children to a punk-music venue in the early eighties. Contemporary interviews with participating artists and "the children of the farm," along with a bounty of archival footage, convey the dream of a collective community where values go beyond the blight of urbanity. Helen De Michiel's Turn Here Sweet Corn (57 mins) takes us to the edge of suburbia where farms meet the bulldozers of progress. Eagan, a rural community near Minneapolis, is the site of cultural erosion. At the "Gardens of Eagan," two tenant farmers harvest their last crop. In stark contrast, tacky prefab homes invade the nearby pasture like a passing blight.-Steve Seid