The world in miniature has long given artists a valued vantage for observing life in its fleshier, fuller scale. Ante Bozanich's Pale of Night (1986, 5:57 mins) casts the artist's interior world onto a microcosm of madness. Pet rats, rear-projected tableaux, and hand-hewn props serve as acute elements in a ritual of alienation. The world widens to envelop memory in Michael J. Collins's Everything Was Nice (1990, 16 mins). Stick puppets vie for dominance over a protagonist who re-enacts uncomfortable yet hilarious moments from his past. In Chip Lord and Mickey McGowan's Easy Living (1984, 18:15 mins), life in suburbia isn't just one of consumption; it has become the very object of its own desire. This whimsical work traces a typical day in the 'burbs, using a full complement of toys-from wind-up golfer to tiny drive-in theater. Murky clay figures cavort with quirky humans on the deliriously painted sets of Tony Oursler's EVOL (1984, 28:58 mins), a nocturnal drama of sexual confusion and longing. This pubescent nightmare revolves around sexually charged detritus and jerky bodies of delirium. -Steve Seid