When we turn on the news, we tune into a vision of the world. Because we see images of reality, we tend to think of them as mirrors on the world, forgetting the chain of decisions that led to our viewing these particular images. The reality of the image is that someone chose to photograph the scene (as opposed to another) and to frame it (leaving what out?); someone edited the sequence making further decisions as to what to include and discard, and which images to place next to each other; a commentary was written "anchoring" our reading of the images; and the news stories were ordered, hierarchized and categorized. Tonight's film and videomakers intervene in this circuit of exchange of visuals and information to present an alternative vision of the world. In L'Histoire du Soldat Inconnu, Belgian filmmaker Henri Storck uses newsreels filmed to commemorate the Kellogg-Briand Pact deploring war and edits them to satirize the event: meaning is not in the image, but in its use. Bruce Conner's Report uses footage and a news broadcast of Kennedy's assassination and clips of newsreels and ads-the content of a news program, reworked and edited into a report on power, commenting on the authority of public figures and public images. From his video series for television, Six Fois deux, Jean-Luc Godard and Anne-Marie Miéville's Photos et Cie is an investigation of the news photo, and the company it keeps: the technological, economic and ideological factors that contribute to its construction. In one section, a sensational still photograph meant to catch the eye, is held before us for an interminable period as a monologue reveals the choices involved in its "capture": the selection of film stock and camera and the choice of the moment to shoot. Later, Godard flips through a stack of photographs, and in asking who gets paid, when and for what, he foregrounds the economic determinants of the images. The final section comments on the irony of the French Communist Secretary calling a news conference to criticize the media. -Kathy Geritz