Local filmmaker Davey Davis is headed to Palestine. Davis has been doing camera work for some of our video interviews (remember the Sam Wilson interview?), and since he’s been manning the 337 Art Truck you’ve probably run into him at one event or another. In January he’ll be going to Palestine for three months as...
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Exit Through the Gift Shop tonight at SL Art Center
Tonight at the Salt Lake Art Center the Salt Lake City Film Center will be screening Exit Through the Gift Shop, the film by famous street-artist Banksy. In this month’s edition of 15 Bytes we published local filmmaker Davey Davis’s review of the film. “Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop is an incredibly relevant, coherent...
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Exit Through the Gift Shop
“In the wake of it I feel sick. Banksy steps back on stage, a bit sheepishly, with a “sorry about that,” and the film closes. But Banksy couldn’t have made a better ‘exit.’ Right as his fame and value rises to a peak, he shows us what a sham that value system is. If the...
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Jan Andrews’ JOSEPH BRODSKY
Joseph Brodsky: In the Prison of Latitudes a film by Jan Andrewsreviewed by Geoff Wichert In 1963, Joseph Brodsky was arrested by the KGB. While most Americans were probably too distracted that year by the arrest in Alabama of civil rights activist Martin Luther King, the ominous news of 80 American deaths in Vietnam, or...
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Matthew Barney
“Barney has not-so-daringly co-opted the surface of Japanese culture for White Guy Imperialism, and turned it into grotesque veneer, a chinoiserie not unlike the ritual decorations in somebody’s New York loft. He employs not only the people but the actual festivals and sacred customs in order to redeem the weird orientalist side of his psyche...
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Art & Copy
“Art & Copy is a great ad for the advertising world. Watch it and you’ll be ready to give up your day job, no matter how profitable or prestigious, to join the revolutionaries and visionaries who craft the messages that bombard us everyday.” From Shawn Rossiter’s review of the film Art & Copy. Read the...
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Waiting for Hockney on the Sundance Channel
Julie Checkoway’s film "Waiting for Hockney" premieres on the Sundance Channel Thanksgiving week. You may remember Checkoway as the art critic for the Salt Lake Tribune for 2008. Her film, "Waiting for Hockney," profiles artist Billy Pappas, who spent 10 years of his life creating a minutely rendered portrait of Marilyn Monroe and his search...
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Film and the Visual Arts
Our March edition of 15 Bytes concentrated on video, installation and performance, genres that stretch the normal categories of the "visual arts" (or, for discussion purposes, what used to be called the "plastic arts"). Video stradles the visual art and film worlds. Performance does the same with theatre and dance. And I suppose installation could...
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