Within the counter-cultural movements of the 1970s, many challenged notions of community and home and promoted alternatives to the very physical structures in which communal activity could take place. Early black-and-white videos from multi-media collectives Videofreex and Ant Farm serve both as do-it-yourself guides to alternative structures (like geodesic domes and "inflatables") and as documents of the artists, their friends, and families who participate both as builders and inhabitants. in contrast is a pair of 16mm works that present two very different types of house construction: from a time-lapse documentary compressing five months into 11 minutes to efficiently show the construction of a northern Vermont house, to a lovingly hand-built home whose residents come from the realm of imagination. This program is part of the 2011 Portland Architecture + Design Festival, presented by the American institute of Architects Portland. Visit adfestivalpdx.com, to learn more.