This traveling show of recent animated short comic films compiled by Mike Judge (Beavis and Butthead) returns in its fourth iteration. The roughly two dozen films are a mixed bag -- in style, substance and entertainment value -- but there's enough here to guarantee a fun screening. Among the highlights: the crudely drawn but funny "Angry Unpaid Hooker" (part of an upcoming HBO series); a visually brilliant bit of stop-motion animation "Western Spaghetti," from PES; the swirling, artfully shifting shapes of "Jeu"; a pair of computer-animated bunnies on the run, in "Usavitch"; the droll undertaker adventure "This Way Up," from U.K.'s Smith & Foulkes; and a surprisingly evocative paintball battle, seemingly staged within a 1970s arcade game, in "LOVESPORT: Paint Balling." And because no compilation would be complete without an entry from Bill Plympton, Show also offers "Hot Dog," the final installment of the well-known animator's "Guard Dog" trilogy. In English, and some French, with subtitles. 10 p.m. nightly, Sat., July 12; and Mon., July 14, through Thu., July 17. Oaks (AH)

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