As travelers, visitors and always observers, tonight's filmmakers are concerned with seeing a place-their home, others' homes, their city, others' cities. It is a seeing that is perhaps only possible with film-concerned with texture and detail, examining with a lens rather than an eye, moving in close, fracturing, layering, and altering the image, bringing together past and present, eastern and western, near and far in an impossible, personal mapping. In West German filmmaker Christoph Janetzko's ON LUDLOW in blau, an apartment in New York City is minutely examined, the almost abstracted interior space grounded by outside sounds of the city. Continuum, local filmmaker Dominic Angerame's homage to the "city film," is a rich, layered portrait of the timeless gestures of men repairing the streets and buildings of San Francisco and Chicago. Holly Fisher's Soft Shoe moves from rural to urban settings and eastern to western Europe in a dance of images and an analysis of movement that harkens back to Muybridge. Local filmmaker Gunvor Nelson's recently completed Light Years combines footage of the Swedish landscape, shots of paint being applied to photographs, and images of autumn, in a beautiful, haunting meditation on distance and proximity and the processes of creation. -Kathy Geritz