The artists in tonight's program get inspiration from society's rubbish, salvaging objects that are dog-eared, damaged, or decaying, and in one case hastening their destruction. In the animated Broken Down Film (Osamu Tezuka, Japan, 1985, 6 mins, B&W/Color, 16mm, From Chicago Filmmakers), the hero must fight the villain but also the scratches and broken sprockets of a worn-out film. Janie Geiser animates a collection of antique toy figures from the 1930s in Secret Story (U.S., 1996, 8.5 mins, 16mm, From Canyon Cinema), a fairy tale or fever dream that evokes memories of childhood. In a little-known document, Junkopia (U.S., 1981, 6 mins, 35mm, PFA Collection), Chris Marker recorded the now defunct art environment of the Emeryville Mud Flats, an evolving series of sculptures culled from the Bay's debris. Using cast-off objects, fire, and corrosive liquids, artists Peter Fischli and David Weiss may have constructed the ultimate Rube Goldbergesque chain reaction in The Way Things Go (Switzerland, 1987, 30 mins, 16mm, From First Run/Icarus). The Quay Brothers' magical tribute to a Bruno Schultz story, Street of Crocodiles (U.K., 1986, 21 mins, 35mm, Zeitgeist Films), is as much dependent on the discarded objects used for the décor as on the puppets themselves. The play, disorder, and destruction of childhood are the inspiration for a surprise short animation.