Orbit
OffLine moves out of this world with Satellite, the new Whose Family part spy-film, sci-fi thriller, and computer animated music video. Voyage with us to Sacred Spaces, by Charles Henry, a computer animated application of the principles of sacred geometry. Watch carefully to see the hidden faces in the spherical shapes. Internal voyages are the norm with this episode's feature interview situationist and found footage artist Craig Baldwin. Also featured is Baldwin's documentary Sonic Outlaws, about the San Francisco based music art collage band Negativland. Eun-Ha Paek "trips us out" with Peek-a-Boo, a collage of cut-out, computer, super-8, and 3D animation styles that explores issues of cultural displacement, identity, and diaspora through a child's eyes. Come with us also to behold Blackchair Production's Monolith, a filmic meandering through grainy urbanalia. James Lee Byrd carries through dreamland in Dream from Darkness to Light, the story of one man's experience of downfall and loss. Our voyage continues with Wish, by Rossana Jeran, a videopoem that explores the visual world of nature, body, and texture.

Strangers
The odd, quirky, and absurd are commonplace in OffLine's "Strangers" episode. Planet in my Pocket, by Beverly Seckinger, tours Adventureland, African Art shops, Mexican souvenir stands, and a rapid-fire barrage of classic film and cartoon clips, to satirize the wacky and and savage aspects of consumer multiculturalism and racial stereotypes. Ted Pratt's Strangeness in the Night, is a humorous computer animated film that explores the mystery of a missing sock. Jack and Jill, by David Hodes, is a visually sharp and witty look at the seldom seen aspects of a modern man/woman relationship. Stranger Voices, by Max Grimm, a "video noir" about the ill fated relationship between a vampire and a phone sex girl.

Games
OffLine's "Games" episode plays Kristin Lucas' Watch Out for Invisible Ghosts, a collage of video game images and sounds. The competition continues in A Lad and His Game, by Clement Lachance, the profile of a do-nothing twenty-something who faces the challenge of multiple levels and bonus rounds in a never-ending video game while his girlfriend copes with his obsession. In Bingo Inferno, by David Russell, a frustrated man's attempts to stop the local bingo game goes awry in this portrait of an American family where Mom is obsessed by bingo playing and Dad is a television zombie. Cave drawings come to life as the hunter becomes the hunted in the scratch animation video Instinct, by Manfred Smollich. OffLine continues the fun with Lisa Goldring's I Spray Perfume and Michael Schuman's 4 Point Breakdown, a brief collage animation about wrestling, using Edwaerd Muybridge photographs. Ball Machine 1, by John Schwartz, takes an artistic look at the incredible game-like ball machines (kinetic sculptures) of sculptor George Rhoads, while Schwartz's Hysteria Fractal takes a trip through a shared dreamscape of vanilla suburbia.

Communications
OffLine communicates through art with Translate {} Expression, by Tina LaPorta, an exploration of the interface of technology and human subjectivity including its impact on sexuality and desire. Rodney Evans provides us with Teletouch Drive, a multi-layered schizophrenic video which turns the mass media's barrage back on itself in an attempt to reconstruct and subvert its messages. Examine the medium of telecommunications with Kristin Lucas' Cable Xcess, a short experimental video on the relationship between radiation from electronic devices and cables and personal health. In Mnemonia, Joseph Cafferelli weaves haunting dreams and fragments of past life into an hypnotic, poetry-driven short video. Experimental videomaker and World Wide Web artist Shu Lea Cheang is OffLine's feature interview, including clips from Shu Lea's film Fresh Kill, and her interactive internet art project the "Bowling Alley." Leslie Streit's Messengers journeys to new aesthetic lands in cyberspace in this mythical examination of the origins of CD-ROM. In it the primordial lord of the forest gives his messengers the magic disks to take forth. Stan Bowman's Road Suite 2 completes the message with visions from the road.

Yesterday
OffLine explores the images of the past with "Yesterday." Featured are Hugh Morris' His Neighbor's Cat, a silent film about a man who inherits a cat that tricks him out of his home. In Tales from the Lower East Side, Alak Films offers collaged clips of vintage films interwoven with classic 70's television shows to create a quick cut kaleidoscopic landscape. Coming Down, by John Altman, an artistic and poignant non-narrative look at an 1880's vintage building reduced to rubble by the wrecker's ball.

Ships
Sail with OffLine on the Sea of Art with Whose Family and their new maritime-inspired music video Haven. Tag Purvis' Sweet 'n Sour, a video in which two close women friends share the afternoon and dream of life beyond the confines of their small southern town. OffLine's in-depth feature interview is Joel Bachar, Seattle videomaker, rave culture artist, and founder of Blackchair Productions' "Independent Exposure" video screenings. Ghostpainter, by John DeVault, brings us to port by examining the life of an artist struggling with creativity who relies on his wife to continue his work, with surprising results. Train Suite, by Stan Bowman, abandons ship for a land-based excursion on a train going across the country.

Razor
OffLine applies the scalpel in its "Razor" episode. Featured is Thumbtack, the latest Whose Family techno ambient video using computer cuts. In The Fair, by Jackie Pardon, archival footage of the 1964 World's Fair becomes the backdrop for a razor sharp look at racial and ethnic myths taught to children. OffLine's in-depth interview is Deep Dish founder, grassroots organizer, and public access guru, Dee Dee Halleck, with selections from Dee Dee's recent film Gringo in Mananaland. Cutting up the night air is Reynold Weidenaar's Long Into the Night, Heavenly Electric Music Flowed into the Streets, a joyful, abstracted look at some of the earliest electronic music heard in America.