Preceded by short:Small Deaths (Lynne Ramsay, U.K., 1995). Three oblique yet indelible vignettes serve as milestones in a girl's journey from innocence to experience. (11 mins, Color, 16mm)Soho, 1958. Rock 'n' roll is making kings out of working-class princes, and consorts out of hangers-on. Mojo is a cool look at the Angry Young Man era-but this time, it's hard to read the gestures: Are they hate or smoldering love, anger or ambition? This ambiguity courses through Jez Butterworth's bravura encore of his stage play, building tension as events escalate for a group of rock'n'roll lads-Silver Johnny (Hans Matheson), Mickey (Ian Hart), and Baby (Aidan Gillen)-who are pawns and prey for the moneymen waiting in the wings. Butterworth creates a gangland saga with homoerotic themes Hawks only hinted at, and a mordant pathos (a body is found, Beckett-like, in an ashcan). Mojo's ensemble acting offers a new generation of pros whose models may be Gary Oldman and Tim Roth, but whose strings are pulled by an old-timer: Harold Pinter himself, cleverly cast as the essence of evil wisdom. (JB)