Dreams collide with reality when people are displaced and must seek a new meaning of home in tonight's stirring program of shorts. Colombian refugees contemplate the price of prosperity in Mi Jaula de Oro/My Golden Cage (Cristy Paez, Wilson G. Tang, 16 mins). Ham and Eggs (Elizabeth Ruvalcaba, Rosa Maria Ruvalcaba, 4 mins) recounts a struggle with language displacement. Erica Chough's surreal animation Our Cosmos, Our Chaos (20 mins) traverses the dreamscapes of Korea's turbulent history. A common sighting on the Canadian prairies comes with globally menacing implications in Oil Wells: Sturgeon Road & 97th Street (Christina Battle, Canada, 2002, 3 mins, 16mm, Canadian Filmmakers Distribution Centre). In Behind the Checkpoint (Suzanne La, Danielle Muldoon, 2003, 22 mins), San Francisco Airport screeners are tested with the meaning of loyalty and citizenship. Michelle Dizon's experimental Calibrate (5 mins) explores the motivation for standardized identification. Veronica Majano pays tribute to the Mission District of yesteryear in I Reminisce (2.4 mins). Indian writer Arundhati Roy's bold dissenting voice is the heart of an inspiring documentary about the ongoing campaign against the Narmada Dam Project, Dam/Age: A Film With Arundhati Roy
(Aradhana Seth, 2002, 50 mins, From First Run/Icarus Films).