This program presents the majority of the experimental films Joyce Wieland made during her New York period (1962-1970). Witty, and at times even base, Wieland's playful sense of humor unites Larry's Recent Behavior (his behavior is nose-picking), Patriotism (phallic hot dogs sheathed in miniature U.S. flags), and Peggy's Blue Skylight (her most lyrical short, which has a few explicit bits). Wieland's central short work-the lush, sensuous and introspective Water Sark-examines her immediate world. Handtinting reworks black-and-white footage shot for a Jobs Corps documentary. Sparse and relentless, Catfood depicts a cat devouring several different types of whole fish. This work, along with 1933 and Sailboat, is exemplary of Wieland's structuralist period. Rat Life and Diet in North America, like Patriotism (I and II), continues her good-humored critique of nationalist politics.