Oscar drives a taxi 12 hours a day to earn a living. While he works, he is constantly bombarded by the advertising that fills the streets of Buenos Aires. In the trunk of his Peugeot 504, he carries his tools -bottles of glue, paint and cut-outs from magazines. Whenever the taxi is vacant he stops the car, borrows a ladder and starts to transform his chosen billboard using painting and collage techniques. Throughout the film the steadily worsening state of the country's economic situation is reflected in Oscar's personal and creative life, as he is submerged in the national chaos his work becomes more strongly critical.

Each of these was recorded at a particular time in a particular place but it could have been in any number of places, at other times in history. It could have been the fans of the opposing team, supporters of a different cause, members of a different tribe. Crowds form when specifics dissolve. The specifics of time and place as well as specific emotions, needs, thoughts, desires, hopes, beliefs - specific individuals. We wanted to evoke both the dangers and the power and euphoria of these states of collective existence.

Tales from the Periphery looks at the changes currently taking place in the world's second largest river basin, that of the River Plate Delta in Argentina, and reveals aspects of the lives of its people. The everyday rhythm of these lives slowly unfolds before a camera which picks out detail via a subjective approach, thus opening up a new existential reality for the spectator.

Street vendors work in the cracks of globalization. They sell the fetishes of commercial globalization - Hulk statues, 7-Up, national and international currencies - but not on the official market, from which they've been left out. It's a persistent, daily effort, Sisyphean and heroic at the same time, for despite the artfulness of the work, the jingles, the heckling,the sweat, nothing much happens (compared to the profits made by the crusaders of globalization), the world just streams by, and at the end of the day you pack up your things and leave and in your absence the world keeps on going without you.

"Siesta" is a counterpoint to "Un día Bravo", a passive look at the same object. They are two movements of the same composition, and their main theme - the melody - is the passing of time, decrepitude, and death. 6th Independent Vídeo & Interactive Phenomena Show