In She Puppet Peggy Ahwesh uses the Tomb Raider video game as raw material for an evocative journey through a surreal environment. In Amie Siegel's Pasang Naik (The Tide) travel is not a relief but a rapt and faulty stare, a mode of contemplative abstraction from the world where every scene becomes picturesquely inarticulate, solely observable, an opera whose story or drama dives into the music. Ken Kobland writes of his film, Berlin/nilreB: Tourist Journal, "It's a letter to Berlin; a graveyard meditation (with The Wall as its marker)." Irina Leimbacher's Homecomings presents the nostalgic notion of home evoked in images of three different settings. Laura Waddington, Cargo: this poetic and exquisitely beautiful, video diary records the melancholic shadows of life of a container ship crew in perpetual limbo.
