Detroit–based artist Bill Brown and Chicago filmmaker Thomas Comerford, joined locally by Melinda Stone, are on their second Lo Fi Landscapes Tour, which features, in their words, "a program of films about the space of history and the history of spaces. These films explore how historical text becomes physical texture and how filmmaking itself is memory recovered from landscape's amnesia." Bill Brown's deadpan-humorous Mountain State (2003, 22 mins, Color, 16mm) focuses on roadside historical signs and cemeteries to explore the westward expansion of the United States. Brutal murders of Native Americans, John Brown's revolt, and the Hatfield/McCoy feud are just some of the markers of the conflict–filled nature of that history. Melinda Stone's marvelous Underfoot (2004, 7 mins, Color, Video) is a brisk walk through San Francisco with an eye on its street graffiti, which is variously whimsical, political, and outrageous. Her earlier Suggested Photo Spots (1997, 10 mins, Video), made with Igor Vamos, constructs an alternative series of roadside markers highlighting industrial waste, military test sites, and other disregarded landscapes. In the lushly observed Land Marked/Marquette Series (2005, 23 mins, B&W/Color, 16mm), Thomas Comerford examines four sites in Chicago connected by their relationship to the seventeenth-century French Jesuit missionary and explorer Jacques Marquette.