Peter Lynch (Canada)
Portraiture as hacking, Cyberman ostensibly opens the hood of the world's first cyborg - inventor, performance artist, privacy advocate, and University of Toronto professor Steve Mann - and looks at what makes him run. The most opaque, intellectual and ornery of Lynch's quirky, quixotic characters, Mann has lived in an electronic world for 20 years. Using wearable computers and an EyeTap camera, he projects a video record to any number of labyrinthine Web sites. Cyberman is organized more episodically than Lynch's previous work, as the director following Mann to Times Square (where he creates artwork by doing something called "dusting"), the shores of Georgian Bay (where, sans tech gear, he actually swims) and, to most comic effect, Wal-Mart and Nike stores. Lynch crafts a moving, at times poetic, portrait of a contradictory individual, and concludes that understanding Mann is as easy as understanding humanity itself. - MarkP.

(Sun., Sept. 9, 3 p.m., Varsity; Wed., Sept. 12, 7 p.m., Varsity)