This series brings together a range of recent nonfiction films that focus on deeply personal perceptions of places in time—places of our time. Like the very earliest forms of cinema, which took entranced spectators to far away-places they had never seen and to daily vistas they could now view, through the camera’s eye, in new ways, each of these films trains its gaze onto the landscapes of a contemporary time. The result is a modern travelogue through the significant destinations of a new century—destinations that nonetheless elicit struggles carried over from the past.