Taking its title from Robert Smithson's drawing, Towards the Development of a "Cinema Cavern" (1971), this program of small gauge films and videos is presented "truly 'underground'" in the museum's Vault Gallery.

Characteristically dislocated and cavernous, the works on view span several generations, and highlight artists concerned with what Andrew V. Uroskie calls "unlearn[ing] disciplinary orthodoxies that have grown up to segregate the fields of film, video, performance, and installation." These works are situated "between the institutional dynamics of the movie theater's 'black box' and the museum's 'white cube'."