With acupuncture needles piercing her chiaroscuro-lit face, Linda Montano recounts in chant-like rhythms the mournful story of her husband's death. From the phone call alerting her to the tragedy, to her visit to view the body, Mitchell's Death (1978, 22 mins, B&W) takes on the ache of mortality, siting it on the artist's body. The slowly shifting camera focus reflects a like shift in consciousness as Montano moves between death and deliverance. Donigan Cumming leads us on a tour of decay as he recovers mementoes from a dead friend's apartment in Culture (2002, 17 mins, Color). Cumming's agitated presence wavers somewhere between niggling loss and discomforting laughter. The first chill of autumn has arrived when Joe Gibbons decides it's time for a man-to-dog talk in Elegy (1991, 11 mins, B&W), so off he goes to the cemetery with Woody, his canine confidant. Man's mortality is also dog's, a fact that leaves Woody speechless. Is it the undead or the unliving portrayed in Walking Talking (2004, 16:30 mins, Color), the newest work by AfterLifers Torsten Burns and Tony Discenza? The ambling antics of zombies take the art of performance into a netherzone of discombobulated bodies.