Take a look at the making of Boys of Bonneville, the perfect film to get you in the mood for the UMFA's upcoming SPEED exhibit.
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Anna Campbell Bliss: Arc of Light
A review of a new documentary about Utah artist Anna Campbell Bliss, premiering this month at the UMOCA.
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Boomtown
A review of Torben Bernhard and Travis Low's documentary short about Frisco, Utah, screening this week at the Big Sky Documentary Film Festival.
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Crossing Borders: Tina Modotti, Frida Kahlo and Women Artists in Mexico
A documentary on Tina Modotti, femme fatale of Mexico in the 1920s, and a discussion on 20th Century Mexican Women Artists - at Salt Lake's Main Library, Thursday.
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The Gospel According to Raphael
Check out this new 15 Bytes-sponsored film project documenting an outsider artist creating heaven, earth and hell in his State Street warehouse.
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Boys of Bonneville
This week Salt Lake City Mayor Ralph Becker and Salt Lake County Mayor Peter Corroon declared August 24th (this past Wednesday) Ab Jenkins Day. Though David Abbot “Ab” Jenkins” was mayor of Salt Lake City from 1940 – 1944, his real achievement was as the record-setting race car driver who pioneered Utah’s Bonneville Salt Flats...
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Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow & Other Mixed Media
Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, a documentary that explores Anselm Kiefer's city of ruins and art in southern France, is now screening in select cities in the United States.
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Park City Film Music Festival
Some films are as well-known for their scores as they are for any moving images or dialogue. Think Jaws or Indiana Jones. But far too often the film score is neglected by the public, critics and award ceremonies. With the Park City Film Music Festival, which runs at the end of May, Leslie Harlow is...
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Michael Ondaatje at the City Library
Not every novel that wins the Man Booker Prize—the annual award that over 40 years has become the world-wide benchmark of literary publishing—goes on to achieve wide notoriety, any more than every film that wins an Academy Award turns out to be a timeless masterpiece. One novel that, along with the movie made from it,...
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Chuck Close at Salt Lake Art Center
Tonight the Salt Lake City Film Center presents a free screening of a documentary on artist Chuck Close at the Salt Lake Art Center. The screening of Chuck Close, a film by Marion Cajori, at 7 pm is part of the Film Center’s Creativity in Focus film series. Cajori’s last film (with editing completed by...
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Documentary Film
The Sundance Film Festival will be in town in a little over a week. In addition to all the star-sightings and "independent" films featuring Hollywood actors that will be the focus of much of the attention at Sundance, the festival has some exciting, if less-heralded aspects: the shorts, which you rarely see in theatres,...
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