To mark the start of its third season OffLine dons Masks in an interview with mask maker Richard Thompson. Joel Baird's With the Good Witch takes us into a haunting street parade while Erik Deutschmann animates masks in Ego Diminutive Experiment #1. Hold on to your wigs for Do, by Andrew Fort, a filmic parody of the French new wave movement. Caroline Clerc and Kelly Coyne unveil The Phenomena of Materialisation, an investigation of the "grotesque" female body as articulated in turn of the nineteenth century discourse. Steve Witt's 12-19-93 features music by Malachi, an art troupe shrouded in mystery.

Languages. Seven Days in 1994, by Kristin Tripp, borrows the jargon of subway advertisement to explore the psychological implications of living in constant fear for one's health and safety. Maureen Nappi's computer animation Color Slivers, speaks to us in the language of geometry. This episode features bilingual performance artist Carmelita Tropicana. Robert Renfrow's Glyphs blends images of cave paintings with computer graphics and video processing. The language of film explodes in Andres Tapia-Urzua's beautifully filmed Mirror Man.

Carpe Diem. Joel Baird's Miracle traces the story of a little girl who mocks the religious traditions of her youth, only to be confronted by them later in life. Erik Deutschman's comedic Euphaedra is a dramatic fantasy about a man who needs to live the way he see fits. The Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia, New York is the environment for OffLine's feature interview with founders Dorothy and Bob Riester. Also on the show: Sunday Afternoon, by Sandy Dyas looks at the complexity of women's lives, commenting on the simplicity that has disappeared; The Moment, by Amy Brown and Leo O'Sullivan, is a fictional work exploring the existentialist dilemma of a person on the verge of suicide; and Skateboards, by Paul Belodeau, an off-the-cuff interview with young skateboarders.

Patterns. This week's mind-bender kicks off with Erik Deutschman's Left Alone With Night, an entirely cameraless organic experimental film revealing three nocturnal dimensions. Persistence is a computer animation by Maureen Nappi which mimics motion by positioning objects in rapid succession. Eliot Sirota's Faulty Technology combines live action with computer graphics and animation. This week's feature interview is Dan Wolf, a photographer known for his manipulation of negatives. Photon Discharge by Greg Bowman and Salient Evincement by Anthony Stephenson saturate the senses using fast cutting images of nighttime lights. Marchette Dubois' Library divides the screen into quarters for this unique exploration of library space. Adding to this pattern of image intensity is JFX, by Austin, Texas video artist Kirk-o-Matic, who outlines his own interpretation of the JFK assassination conspiracy fervor.

Bridges. We cross waters and get amBUSHed with Jared Katsiane's film juxtaposing George Bush's "War on Drugs" with the experiences of two generations of African Americans who find their lives invaded by that war's soldiers - the police. Cosmic Ghetto's music video Can't Get Out of the Ghetto produced by Justin Forest Nathanson provides a musical bridge. Deborah Orloff paves a causeway into the subject of date rape in Conflicting Signals. Tonight's featured artist, Peter Rothbart bridges music and computer art. Andrew Fort's An Abbreviated Catalog of the Achievements of Modern Man is a historical treatise against deconstructionism cast in the form of a murder investigation. Twisted dolls and strings span the screen in Mysogyny, Chuck Furoy's comment on the fragmentation of bodies in the fashion industry and the mass media.

Family. Family issues highlight this week's show beginning with Mary Flanagan's She Went Back, investigates the circumstances surrounding the death of the videomaker's grandmother. My Imaginary Irish Grandmother is a musical vignette from Joel Baird about death and childhood memories using footage from old home movies. We delve into the absurdity and emptiness of deluding one's self through self-agrandizement in Erin Crysdale's Missing Linck. Listen with us to the avant sounds of cellist Hank Roberts in this week's feature segment. Sandy Dyas looks at the passing of a family heirloom (The Hope Chest ) by a woman who never married and now is ninety. Ju Pong Lin creates a visual space exploring the complex relationship between mother and child in Post Partum Letter

Flight. Take off with us on a flight of fancy. On the runway this week: Tad Roebuck's Euphobia, an experiment with found footage from the Cold War era; Processional, a computer animation by Maureen Nappi; Mr. & Butterfly, a collaboration of music, video and computer graphics by Nancy Nai-Hsien and Jeff Severtson; and Storybook, the Blow Pop's new music video produced by Steve Witt. Filmmaker Erik Deutschman takes us to new altitudes in this week's in-depth interview. Included is his multi-layered film Adrift, which explores a woman trapped in a limbo state.

Structures. Carhenge is a monumental mimic of Stonehenge made out of cars which Kirk-o-Matic visits in his TV Dinner program. Images of war and words bounce across the screen in Joel Baird's Ratta Tat Tat while History repeats the story of an encounter between a young boy and a man who wants to "show him pictures." In January '91: A Video Diary artist Helga Weiss documents the structure of everyday life; from the simplicity of getting heat in the winter to the complexities of the Gulf War and the housing crisis in Germany. Kelly Murray investigates wedding traditions, creating a parodic frame for the Dream Girl, in order to ask what women are offered by accepting the wedding fantasy. The Punishment, by Marcelle Pecot, is a film in which sounds and images interact to build the inner experience of emotional and psychological child abuse.

Boundaries. Maureen Nappi's Elemental Abstractions crosses the border between computer animation and synthetic music programming, creating an artistic relationship between image and sound. Jeff Dark directs Five Spot, a short dramatic work about a young child pushed to the edge in a restaurant by his inability to speak the truth. Kirk-o-Matic's The Joy Ride is a fast jolt beyond the perimeter of special effects and video processing. Nove Hranice /New Borders documents the dissolution of Czechoslovakia into two republics and the disruption of the lives of residents living near the border.