Armchair travel may have begun with books, but it found new vistas with the movies. Of course film takes us places we have never been, but it can also transport us via unconventional, even impossible, views, and in this age of virtual vacations, take us places even the filmmaker has never ventured. In Michael Snow's Seated Figures and Ken Jacobs's recent Georgetown Loop, our perceptions of the surrounding landscape are radically shifted from a Renaissance perspective to beautiful, disorienting abstractions. In If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now, local filmmaker Marina McDougall explores journeys in the age of modern technology, depicting contemporary nomads who take on the sights and sounds of others. The U.C. Berkeley Environmental Simulation Laboratory used minature models to visualize the effects of proposed changes on a drive down New York's West Side Highway. Janis Crystal Lipzin's cross-country trip results in panoramic views of her hotel rooms in Motel Dissolves, while in G. M. Auleta's Lovely Desert, two people venture into an animated landscape. Melinda Stone and Igor Vamos tour the U.S., constructing alternative photo spots along the way, documented in Suggested Photo Spots. Tonight, experience travel as a state of mind rather than a sense of place.-Kathy Geritz If You Lived Here, You'd Be Home By Now (Marina McDougall, 1993, 12 mins). Georgetown Loop (Ken Jacobs, 1996, 11 mins, B&W (correction: 35mm) ). Suggested Photo Spots (Melinda Stone, Igor Vamos, 10 mins, 3/4" Video).Visible Inventory Six: Motel Dissolves (Janis Crystal Lipzin, Text by Gertrude Stein, 1978, 15 mins). West Side Highway (correction: Simulation Marin c.8 min, excerpt) (Peter Bosselmann, Environmental Simulation Laboratory, 1985, excerpt c. 5 mins). Lovely Desert (G. M. Auleta, 1995, 10 mins, 3/4" Video). Seated Figures (Michael Snow, 1988, 40 mins).