The journey to find one's purpose and confront its consequences is magnified and electrified in tonight's array of shorts. In the experimental Passing (Karen Earl, Canada, 7 mins, From Video Out Distribution), driving down the dotted white line is a precarious state, literally and figuratively. In a similarly moody essay, The Liberation of Everyday Life (16 mins, 16mm), Juli Kang examines what happens when an idealistic woman loses tolerance for her banal corporate existence. Against My Will (Ayfer Ergun, Pakistan, 2002, 50 mins, From First Run/Icarus Films) unflinchingly documents the double-edged sword of leaving an abusive marriage. The stark realities of a New York intersection are confronted through Chinaka Hodge's spoken word rhythms in Barely Audible (Vivian Wenli Lin, Katherine Copeland, Eli Jacobs-Fantauzzi, 2002, 3 mins). Haruko Tanaka's experimental California Telephone (4 mins, B&W, 16mm) attempts to listen between the lines of the late June Jordan's poems of resistance. War on Iraq: Casualties of American Empire (Regan Kruse, Bianca Darville, Monica Galindo Heim, Cristina Lee, Tim Tsai, 20 mins) skillfully navigates the quagmires of political maneuvering and media monopoly.