Recovering from a painful past has both inner and outer dimensions: the physical is intertwined with the emotional and the spiritual. Tonight's program provocatively addresses the ways we seek to locate and heal our hidden scars. The Beginning of the Chumash (Monique Sonoquie, 5 mins) is a colorful evocation of the lost oral history of a Native American tribe. Amazonia (Nandini Sikand, 2001, 8 mins, Color/B&W, From Women Make Movies) suggests a metaphoric relation between breast cancer survivors and mythic Amazonian women archers. Junk Box Warrior (Preeti AK Mistry, 4 mins, B&W, From Frameline) and Psychosomatic (Maryam Gharavi, 2001, 7 mins) are mesmerizing depictions of the psychic turmoil surrounding assertions of identity in a chaotic, label-obsessed world. Two women resort to desperate measures in goodnight, liberation (Oriana Bolden, 6 mins) and Saanjh-As night falls (Sabrina Dhawan, 2000, 20 mins, 16mm, From NAATA), both depicting the devastating effects of poverty. The experimental Against Filial Piety (Wenhwa Ts'ao, 2001, 5 mins, Silent, 16mm) examines feelings of failure. A young Muslim girl is forced into prostitution under the pretext of marriage in the richly textured Tired of Dancing (Alka Raghuram, 4 mins). The ephemeral L'anatomie du désir (Dinorah de Jésus Rodriguez, 2001, 5 mins) and the liberating They Lied to My Mother (Kehinde Koyejo, 5 mins) both explore the perpetuation of ideals of universal beauty. Barrier Device (Grace Lee, 26 mins, 35mm) and The Plug (Jenn Kao, 1 min) poignantly illustrate the curious dilemma of unraveling a truth at the risk of losing what we cherish, and the power of closure to let us begin our lives again.