Year 1982 - 281

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.

Requested by their friend who has a terminal illness, the Mexican group "Los Humildes" plays a benefit concert to raise funds for a orphanage.

This video documents two early live telecommunication performances by media artist Tom Klinkowstein: On 27 April 1982, at cultural center 't Hoogt in Utrecht, Klinkowstein employed slow-scan TV technology to juxtapose pictures of a shopping mall in his Pennsylvanian hometown Levittown, a 1950s planned suburban city, with then present-day Netherlands. On 13 May 1982, Klinkowstein in Rochester, NY, and Ruud van Empel in Rotterdam produced a series of print facsimiles simultaneously in both countries using telecopiers and an international telephone connection.

A bird struggles against a strong headwind, but things are not as they seem.

A Haitian family conducts a traditional week-long ceremony in honor of their ancestral spirits. Music, dance, and sacrifice are incorporated to honor the ancestors and their gods.

Workers’ rights were at the heart of the ’68 protests, but where was the conversation about working mothers? This film explores the lack of job prospects for Sheffield women with families to support. The women speak for themselves.

Dressed as a virgin mother, Michel Journiac tears down his garment and reveals a rag doll tied to his belly. He frees it carefully, presses it against his heart and caresses it gently, then he smears it with blood and stuffs it with raw meat dripping with blood. Finally, he wraps it slowly in a white shroud, he buries it, then collapses to the ground, overcome by grief. This action took place without an audience and was prepared with a screenplay.

Aloual, the black pearl leads an initiatory journey which is a quest for the part of mystery and the wild side that lays deep inside each of us.

Dégringolade (TUMBLE) - was produced in the pixilation technique. This process allows alive characters and real objects to achieve absolutely unrealizable movements in reality. Everything becomes possible with the stop motion technique. This film shows an imaginary and frenetic world where it slides, runs, falls, flies, jumps, fidgets, leaps, rolls, bolts, and boozes; it is a wild weird world.

Mary Jo wants a puppy more than anything in the world. At first her parents, seemingly made of stone, flatly refuse their youngest daughter's heartfelt pleas and Mary Jo is openly mocked by her older siblings. Finally, when the little girl seems to be devoting every waking moment to dreaming about dogs, the parents relent. Some difficulties ensue, but Mary Jo and her dog Teddy meet them head on.