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.

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.

Various activist documentaries reporting on and responding to an extreme situation. The 'legal' sacking of a country. www.argentinaarde.org