Outlines the adjustments in skills necessary for winter driving and the precautions motorists should take to prepare a car for cold weather. Emphasizes the proper techniques to anticipate and avoid potential accidents due to skidding on ice and snow, how to recover from a skid and the proper use of 'jumper cables'.
Simon is an Algerian man who has moved to the south of France. Simon roams from house to house in the town, considered by everyone to be the “idiot of the village”. Simon is in search of not only a job but also acceptance in the society where he finds himself. A small film in the form of a sincere and thoughtful portrait.
"R. B.'s new film is a magic dream, airy and clear. Everything you see is a fact, firm and distinct at the moment you are seeing it, a fact of daily life or of extraordinary dance, or of amateur acting, and you recognize each fact too, at a glance. Later, as the film continues, the factual seeing is still the same, but somehow it doesn't feel the same, it feels like a good dream you are dreaming, with a sly and witty tease to it, and nearly weightless." - Edwin Denby
The following is what is no longer and is still going on and almost not and...
Photographed in penal installations throughout California; depicts the activities, interviews, and artwork of inmates whose lives have been changed by art projects in prison. State officials, program directors, and prison administrations verify the statements made by inmates and prove that the experience of the punishment can also be an experience of the restoration of humanness
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.
Mexican feature film
The night life of Omonia. A combination of fiction and real life.
A short film by Ahmed Zir
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.
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
In this centennial tribute to the Brooklyn Bridge, the artist combines computer and analog processed visuals with an interconnected meld of the sounds of the bridge with clarinet and synthesized music. Elements of light and heavy materials contrast in both the visual and sonic tracks, greatly enhancing the grace of this piece.
