Introduced by Julianne Burton To Columbia (Carlos Lersundy, Colombia, 1971, 15 mins): An observational montage film tracing a diverse itinerary of habitats and ethnicities, from small-town marketplace and indigenous rural communities to the disjunctive and voracious capital-as-merry-go-round, where marvelous particularities of difference are devoured. This microscopic view of Latin America's ethnic macrocosm both anticipates and challenges postmodern documentary cinema. An Island Surrounded by Water (María Novaro, Mexico, 1985, 25 mins): An adolescent's search for her lost mother is never fulfilled in this lyrical, hauntingly disjointed narrative. Instead, in the end, the protagonist composes herself before the camera at the threshold of womanhood. Filmminutos: Dracula (Noel Lima, Cuba, 1983, 1 min): Children encounter the Prince of Darkness in the Woods. Time of Women (Monica Vasquez, Ecuador, 1988, 20 mins): The rhythms of community life in an Andean agricultural community have been irrecovably altered as men and young people have emigrated in search of work. This sensitive documentary records how the women left behind balance their loss with their strength. The Land Burns (Raymundo Gleyzer, Argentina/Brazil, 1968, 12 mins): This scripted documentary, in the tradition of Pereira dos Santos's Vidas Secas, denounces the perennial hunger and displacement confronted by the drought-driven tenant farmers of the Brazilian northeast. The spare imagery recalls Glauber Rocha's "aesthetics of hunger" while the emphatic symbolism characteristic of the period is reinforced by an indignant narrative voice. Island of Flowers (Jorge Furtado, Brazil, 1989, 12 mins): The trajectory of a humble tomato, from garden to kitchen to garbage pile, is the pretext for this ironic exposition of the inverted priorities of what passes for "advanced" civilization.