Pat O'Neill has been making humorous, complex optically printed films for over thirty years. His most recent film combines found and created images and sounds in an exploration of "trouble in the image," whether a disturbing moment in a narrative, how-to instructions for creating an image, or images that break apart and lose their denotative quality. Delightful animations, multiple images, and drawings on top of film footage are just some of the intricate elements that interact in this beautiful, tightly edited film. For O'Neill, "it might be said to be about discourse caught in the act of disintegration....The film (is) made up of dozens of performances dislodged from other contexts. These are often relocated into contemporary industrial landscapes, or interrupted by the chopping, shredding, or flattening of special-effects technology turned against itself....The reward is to be found in immersion within a space of complex and intricate formal relationships." (38 mins, Color/B&W, 35mm) Preceded by: Two Sweeps (1977, 10 mins, Color, Silent, 16mm), and Let's Make a Sandwich (1982, 20 mins, Color, Silent, 16mm), two of the filmmaker's personal favorites. Initially made as continuous-loop projections, "both pieces are entirely about the experience of watching the screen....The experience has very little to do with subject matter, even at those times when it is obvious what is being represented." (O'Neill)-Kathy Geritz