Vancouver-based Hank Bull sees Western Civ as one big theme park: Colonialand, Aboriginaland, Commodityland. And like most theme parks, not everyone can afford the admission. Bull's highly astute, absurdist videoworks are about the exclusion of people and ideas from that E-ticket called Culture. The earlier Sax Island (1984, 11:40 mins) is a dimly comic "Fantasy Island" for survivalists who have the luxury of observing the world in absentia. What is particularly fascinating about SI is its imaginative use of chroma-key, merging drawn environments and props with live action. Bull goes one further with Peep Show (1986, 10 mins), a computer-animated tale of a time when only animals are left searching for the meaning of human culture. The audaciously designed Duster (1991, 41:50 mins), a complex cabaret, coalesces many of Bull's themes in a phantom frontier town where remnants of the past persist: an Indian woman grafted to her horse, the MacBooty Brothers in pursuit of Goya's skull, the Global Home Shopping Channel selling off pieces of history. Hank is not bullish about North America.-Steve Seid