Our second Program on Place claims a field-of-view as far and wide as Planet Pluto, boasts eight premieres, and features four of the makers in person! Cal Poly’s Lana Caplan pops in with a book- launch and a new movie on SoCal beach milieux, before Catherine Finsness debuts her enlightening doc on Eclipse Chasers (with Kelly Sears’ classic Maximum Umbra as complement). Sietske Tjallangii introduces one of her “performative travelogs”, Arlin Golden contextualizes his provocative Balloon Boy, and David Sherman sends in DiElectric Drift, his filmic record of a pilgrimage to Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty. Peggy Nelson shares Manhatta II, on the covid-period “abstraction” of NYC streets, while Diane Nerwen’s Boom shows us the same de-populated city, but from a penthouse perspective.

PLUS Nik Nerburn’s Minnesota doll-house psycho-drama, If A Man Wanted to Disappear, Travis Wilkerson’s aforementioned Pluto Declaration, and a sublime 16mm circle around Richard Attenborough’s beautiful Baobob. Free Postcards! $12