Preceded by short: Identity Crisis (MindyFaber, U.S., 1990). A seven-year-old girl tries on several femalestereotypes in a ritual of dress-up, but this feisty child proves tooexpansive for her limited role. (3 mins, Color, 3/4" video, FromVideo Data Bank) The Dennis Potter television dramaBlue Remembered Hills grasps with precision the tribal passions ofchildhood. Potter envisions an ordinary day in bucolic England duringthe Second World War, as seven children begin an afternoon's wanderingthrough the woods. Adult actors, clothed in ill-fitting, almost comicoutfits, portray the children whose activities often reflect the tormentand cruelties of the distant war. Their savage games result in pettyrivalries, betrayals, and eventually, tragic consequences. Potter wroteof his decision to cast the film with adults: "Our culture has longsince acknowledged that childhood is not transparent with innocence, andthat its apparent simplicities are but the opacities of the veryanxieties and aggressions which we occasionally seek to evade by meansof misplaced nostalgia for those 'blue remembered hills' of Housman'saching little verse."