Kim Roberts in Person SPIN is a provocative exploration of television and how the medium influences public debate. Brian Springer spent a year recording over 600 hours from satellite down-link feeds capturing both on-air and off-air material. Examining the presidential election of 1992 and the events that framed it, SPIN proves to be a powerful exposé that challenges the illusion that television is an objective information medium. SPIN is preceded by shorts from the Black Maria Film Festival: Shot largely in San Francisco, Michael LaHaie's Critizen is a documentary of the anarchistic spirit. Mingling nude with tourists and redistributing the wealth (in a manner of speaking), the wacky yet frustrated social prankster in his crusade of absurdity commits brash acts of creative protest. Class Struggle in Palo Alto joins the filmmaker Kim Roberts in her ancient Saab as she attempts to explore the class insularity, contradictions, and guilt she sees in her community and herself. Very much a tongue-in-cheek documentary, this cryptic consideration of the lifestyles of the affluent and privileged is witty, wry, and riveting.-John Columbus Critizen (Michael LaHaie, NY, 1994, 18 mins, B&W/Color, 16mm). Class Struggle in Palo Alto (Kim Roberts, CA, 1995, 13 mins, Color, 16mm). SPIN (Brian Springer, IL, 1995, 58 mins, Color, 3/4" video).