Tonight's program featuring recent work begins with Courtney Hoskin's abstract exploration of subtle color, Gossamer Conglomerate (2001, 4 mins, Silent). In his whimsical Pink Socks, Leighton Pierce places his camera at an unusual level (2002, 4.5 mins, DV). Vincent Grenier's examination of fall colors is also a meditation on video color (Color Study, 2000, 4.5 mins, DV). Peter Herwitz's recent 3 Etudes continues his layered, vibrant hand-painted explorations of the film surface (2001, 5 mins @18fps, Silent). Izabella Pruska-Oldenhof's luminous, abstract Light Magic was constructed from photograms (2001, 3.5 mins, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre). Jim Jennings's Interior was shot in a Queens, New York, apartment and for the filmmaker "depicts rooms as emotional states of being" (2001, 8.5 mins, Silent, Film-makers Cooperative). Lewis Klahr is one of the great color stylists; his Daylight Moon is a moving evocation of the past (2002, 13 mins). Switch Center is a glorious ballet mécanique of workers, filmed in an abandoned industrial site (Ericka Beckman, U.S./Hungary, 2002, 11 mins). In Janie Geiser's sumptuous Lost Motion, toys are employed to depict a man's wanderings (2000, 11 mins, Canyon Cinema). Martha Colburn's latest low-tech, in-your-face animation, Big Bug Attack, is filled with creepy, crawling insects (2002, 5 mins). In Richard Reeves's direct animation 1:1, the screen bursts with color (Canada, 2001, 2.5 mins, 35mm, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre).