Tonight's program begins with a look back to the days before cinema, with Kerry Laitala's Retrospectroscope, in which her hand-built para-cinematic device is set in motion. Lewis Klahr's cut-out animation was commissioned by soprano Constance Hauman and renders the story of the emigration of German cabaret composers in the 1930s. Jurgen Reble's newest work, Zillertal, continues his evocative and mysterious explorations into the effects of altering the film surface. In Inger Lise Hansen's stop-animation Hus, a house literally disintegrates, while in the personal Pigeon Within Emily Hubley's character wanders the streets of New York. "..." (The Seasons) by Stan Brakhage and Phil Solomon, and Automatic Writing by Fred Worden, are beautiful abstract explorations of the possibilities of painting on film. Meredith Root's Even Me is a quirky object animation, while Amy Kravitz's abstract, drawn Roost, Stephanie Barber's ode to lost messages, letters, notes, and Scott Stark's ethereal collection of emergency instruction cards, I'll Walk with God, are haunting, evocative films.-Kathy Geritz