Deemed a "10-minute tour de force" (Toronto Globe and Mail), Just Words (Louise Bourque, Canada, 1991, 10 mins, Color, 16mm) incorporates optically printed home-movie footage and an eerily slick close-up of actress Patricia MacGeachy. At lightning speed she rants Beckett's text about home, family, and the confines and alienation of women from Not I. Roost (Amy Kravitz, U.S., 1998, 4.5 mins, Silent, B&W, 35mm) is a visceral journey through one animal's abode. In strangers (Austria, 1999, 29 mins, Color, 16mm), Katherin Resetarits conveys a simple and stunning portrait of a family through masterfully constructed moments in their lives. Carolina Esparragoza's The Little Legs (Mexico, 1999, 2 mins, Color, SVHS) chronicles the life of a boy who can do no right. Why You Were Born (Kelly Spivey, U.S., 2001, 6 mins, Color, Super-8) utilizes found images delicately cut from magazines from the forties to the seventies. A frenetic frame speed shatters women's roles shown in advertising and then offers sadistic feminist and otherwise sapphic solutions. A portrait of a remote Alaskan town, Uivic, The Time of Going Round (Meg McKinney, U.S., 2001, 14 mins, Color, 16mm) is a poem of daily life during winter. The Pigeon Within (Emily Hubley, U.S., 1999, 4.5 mins, Color, 35mm) is a cut-out and hand-drawn animation about a young girl in search of her home. Plus more shorts!