City Mood Spin - Arno Salters, San Francisco, CA, 4 min, dv
A meditation on San Francisco by someone pleasantly mystified by population density, the cult of hand shakers, and urban cool.

Now Let Us Praise American Leftists - Paul Chan, Chicago, 2 min, video
Using FBI suspect-profiling software and the facial hair of Marx, Trotsky, Bakunin and other lefty celebs, Chan presents an homage to J. Edgar Hoover and the (un)trusty mustache.

Fast Forward #2 - Alec Joler, Lawrence, KS, 3 min, dv,
The full-blown realization of Joler's first Lego action flick (see Shorts Program 1) features more gunplay, a helicopter rescue, and a blown dam. Seagal, Schwarzenegger and the folks who did the White Stripes music video have nothing on this guy.

Hunger - Jennifer Perchalla, Tallahassee, FL, 12 min, 16mm
A seamlessly art-directed tale of revenge and malnutrition featuring a Nazi, a persecuted grandmother, and a kitty cat.

Macroscope - Brian Relph, San Francisco, CA, 4 min, 16mm
Traveling beyond narrative expectations, Relph creates a series of expressionistic images matched with sounds that together can either soothe or provoke a spellbound audience.

Crack Baby Series 3&4 - Keith Wilson, San Francisco, CA, 2 min, dv
The baby is back (see Shorts Program 1), and this time he's in the boudoir.

High Tee - William Eagar, London, 6 min, 8mm
America is a strange place: a land of limitless highways, a closed western frontier, and cowboys who play golf while home, home on the range. Like a modern day de Toqueville, this Englishman and his 8mm camera capture the contradictions beautifully.

Lexicality - Richard Raucci, San Francisco, CA, 2 min, 16mm
Pasting together hand-processed film leader and setting it to Eric Satie's repeating 11 tone score, Raucci presents an abstracted treatise on a filmgoer's sense of anticipation.

Bingo Ladies - Tami Wilson, Vancouver, Canada, 18 min, 16mm
For Canada's senior citizens it is a more potent force than Matlock, Geritol, and the buffet line on a Caribbean cruise combined: Bingo! Wilson's documentary profiles a few bingo-holics as they fill in their cards and perform their good-luck rituals in search of the winning combination.

Intelligent Life - Jeff Spoonhower, Maitland, FL, 6 min, animation
Some comedians you laugh at not because they're funny but because they suck. Some robots from outer space work on the same principle, but it doesn't mean they don't want to be loved.

Mabel's World - Mark Edwards, San Francisco, CA, 2 min, webcam
Mabel is a cat. She sits on a table. She has made peace with a world rushing by. For two minutes, and with a Philip Glass score, we can, too.

Dog's Next Friend - Marissa Ronca and Andy Schwartz, Washington, D.C., 8 min, dv
"It's not that being a dog walker is a lazy man's job," says the protagonist of this documentary, but you do get the feeling that it represents the path not chosen. Instead of a good walk, the pooches shown here get to slack with a master.