These works foreground performance in many guises-the acting of character, confessional self-revelation, historical reenactment, gestural or conceptual activities; and the process of generating an often mutable self. A variety of approaches to identity and cultural translation ranges from Zacharias Kunuk's Nunavut (Our Land), Episode 8, at once art and a radical form of ethnography; to Hollywood and Vine, a classic early drag performance tape. Maigre Dog celebrates Jamaican-Canadian vernacular speech through a formally minimal exploration, while in Le voleur vit en enfer, the richness of Québécois language and the exigencies of poverty are explored in a haunting, humorous fiction. Untouchable is a self-reflexive, confrontational approach to underage sexuality as told by a queer teenager armed with a video camera. And Interrupted Attempt offers the fractured attempts of a man to explain-what, we're not sure.