Five days into Sundance 2004, the pickings - not so much in the dramatic competition and high-profile premieres as in the Frontier, World Cinema and Special Screenings niches - have been anything but slim. In new work from past presenters, the promise of earlier panache finds mature fulfillment…. Stir into the mix the usual sprinkling of thoughtful documentaries, innovative shorts and unclassifiable experiments (David Lebrun's Proteus, an exposition of the beatific vision of 19th-century artist and marine biologist Ernst Haeckel; and Jessica Yu's In the Realms of the Unreal, an exploration of a 15,000-page graphic novel by the reclusive Catholic schizophrenic Henry Darger, come first to mind) and you have the makings of a high old time in Park City. So far, anyway.

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