.Yl 1982 - 272

Experimental, 16mm, Akihiko Morishita

About some aspects of Bedouin life on the northern coast.

How are problems solved in a socialist country? The film centres on an old gasworks in the middle of a workers' district in Berlin, capital of the GDR. For 100 years it was polluting the environment - now it is closed. What has happened to the former workers? Have they been made redundant? Will the site of the old works be taken over by a new one, or will a park be laid out there for the local inhabitants?

A story about the loneliness, alienation, fear and nervousness of modern man.

Status Quo perform at the National Exhibition Centre Birmingham in front of an audience which includes H.R.H Prince Charles.

"A silent, in-camera improv that contemplates the early autumn colors and forms of some weathered, wild blackberries growing along a rural Maine railroad track. The berries themselves are gone - into many mouths or fallen to earth. Winter, as yet unseen, approaches from afar. The superimpositions were done in the camera and there was no further editing of the film." —Abbott Meader

Palassteateret (The Palace Theater) was a cinema in Oslo that had one last performance before it got demolished.

This is an intimate look at one year in the life of an international star - the final year in Dame Janet Baker's operatic career.

A documentary made for BBC West in 1982, written and presented by Hugh Cornwell and Jet Black of The Stranglers. It focuses on the colour black and includes the Meninblack phenomenon and some Stranglers of course.

During a diving drill, the North Korean army finds an UN patrol ship that was sunk in the Korean War and manages to salvage a document from a waterproof iron box that tells the story of several North Korean soldiers and the female army war correspondent who accompanied them on their fatal mission.

Documentary by Bill Stamets about the American Nazi Party's 1982 rally held in Chicago's Lincoln Park in response to the city's annual Gay and Lesbian Pride Parade.

A film by Willie Varela

This documentation of a 1982 event at the A.I.R. Gallery in New York features a riveting performance by Wilke, who is nude (except for high heeled-shoes) and aiming a gun. As she stalks the performance space like Emma Peel crossed with an exotic dancer, two cameramen follow her, recording her every movement. Dissonant music and a voiceover text about art, violence, power and gender provide the aural counterpoint to her often provocative physical gestures.

Hands, and the things hands do handsomely edited to some hand-conducted orchestral music. A short film by Syrian film director Abdellatif Abdul Hamid, produced after his return to Syira from the Soviet Union.