Nine recent experimental films look at troubling facts and surprising moments with beauty and inventiveness. Decaying ledgers, an ancient Turkish site and a petrified giant are among the artifacts excavated to reflect on our present times. A conversation between a president and an astronaut is unearthed, a disturbing speech is recreated, traces of a vanished culture are presented or invented. Includes new films by Deborah Stratman, Katherin McInnis, Bobby Abate, Ali Cherri, Karen Yasinsky, James Sansing, Peter Rose, Lonnie von Brummelen and Siebren de Haan, and Scott Stark