Nancy Andrews's latest installment in the life of her fictional “public illustrator” Ima Plume, Dreamless Sleep is an inventive, disjunctive film that draws on real and imaginary facts, combining animation, live action, and puppetry to explore obscure aspects of natural history and detail Plume's life (2004, 31 mins, B&W, 16mm). In The Bear Hunter, Mary Robertson spends time with Bob Chase, who has hunted bears without luck for over forty years in the Pennsylvania woods (2004, 14 mins, Color, Video). The Cowbell in the Tree is a portrait of an eighty-nine-year-old man who has lived his entire life in the same valley. Now the caretaker of a nature conservancy near Woodstock, he relates some family stories (Joel Katz, 2004, 11 mins, Color, Video). Zoologist Matt Marsden sifts through his collection of scavenged skeletal remains in Jim Trainor's The Skulls, and the Skulls and the Bones, and the Bones (2003, 13 mins, Color, Video). A young girl swallows a bee in Bug Girl, an ecological fable that examines humans' connection to nature (Su Rynard, Canada, 2003, 6 mins, Color, Video). Cecelia Condit's hallucinatory Why Not a Sparrow explores the impact of humans on birds with songs, masks, narrative, and provocative questions about one species's value over another (2002–2005, 12 mins, Color, Video).