Tonight, a program of formally inventive films, consisting of laments and memorials marking the passing of time and man's often harmful relation to nature. A forest is filmed over a year in Emily Richardson's haunting time-lapse Aspect (2004, 9 mins, Color, 16mm, From Canyon Cinema). In Robert Todd's Thunder, the earth and sky shake, as a long-vacant lot is slotted for redevelopment (2004, 11 mins, Color, 16mm). Cynthia Madansky and Elle Flanders protest the war through their PSA #1 Color Theory (2004, 3 mins, Color, Video). Let Me Count the Ways: Minus 8, Minus 7 draws on historical texts detailing the effects of the bombing of Hiroshima on plants (Leslie Thornton, 2004, 10 mins, Silent, B&W, Video). Orchard evocatively depicts an overgrown walled-in orchard in Ireland (Julie Murray, 2004, 8 mins, Color/B&W, 16mm). In the abstract Huntington Gardens, Giant Stipa Exposure: California Native, light from the garden of the title is exposed to film and then improvised digitally (Lynn Marie Kirby, 2004, 4 mins, Silent, Color, Video). Eve Heller describes her lyrical evocation of water, Behind This Soft Eclipse, as “a crossing of paths behind the seen, a labor of love in the wake of one who was just here” (2004, 10 mins, Silent, B&W, 16mm). New Yorkers try to maintain their routines amidst capricious weather in Jim Jennings's beautiful Elements (2003, 6 mins, Silent, Color/B&W, 16mm). Threnody recalls the passing of friends (Janis Crystal Lipzin, 2003, 10 mins, Color, Video). In Things We Want to See, Alaskan ice floes and the Aurora Borealis are juxtaposed with fleeting family gatherings (Rebecca Meyers, 6 mins, Color, 16mm).