“The perfect job would be to dig a hole on the beach,” muses an artist in one of many provocative sentiments you'll hear tonight. That this task can be seen as either an act of futility or one of endless creation resonates throughout the program. Techronology, a hyperactive split-screen photomontage, charts technological progress throughout history, while in A State of Emergency technology thwarts the desire for connection. The stuttering, transcendental landscapes of epithelial membrane moment are the backdrop to a patient's unconventional journey, while simple, recurring tableaux set the scene for the visual poem Land of Streams. Repeated found footage in The Fittest reflects on social Darwinism; Power Trip displays co-creators of a film vying for control. The Naked Guy portrays one of Berkeley's infamous characters, deconstructing the myths surrounding the militant nudist and former UC student. The dynamics of relationships are uncompromisingly exposed in My Origins, a filmmaker's dissection of his parents' failed marriage. How to Dig a Hole, an enigmatic depiction of a father and son, looks at the question, “What does it mean to build?”