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.
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.
The Gates Screens This Friday
SLC Film Center changes its name, and screens The Gates at the Salt Lake Art Center.
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 […]
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.
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 […]
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, […]
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. […]
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, […]
Davey Davis goes to Palestine
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 […]
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 […]
Exit Through the Gift Shop
I hate art, the art world, and everything that comes of it. Wait, no. I love it. I couldn’t live without it. Images, and their subsequent appreciation, are what give my life color. This is going to be rough. Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop is an incredibly relevant, coherent […]
Radiant Child
Film Review A Conflicted Radiance A new film on Jean-Michel Basquiat by Davey Davis Of the people who know the childlike, energy-filled, and massively busy works of Jean-Michel Basquiat, most are familiar with the orbiting cautionary tale of success and the art market which consumed and destroyed him, […]
Jan Andrews’ JOSEPH BRODSKY
Joseph Brodsky: In the Prison of Latitudes a film by Jan Andrews 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 […]
Matthew Barney
by Lane Bachman More impressive than any of the films I have seen by Mathew Barney himself is the documentary film about him, No Restraint. Basically, this is a “making of” picture for his recentish endeavors. The narrative is a story of creatures (in this case, humans) who are […]
Art & Copy: The Allure of Advertising at the Salt Lake Art Center
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. Art & Copy does for advertising what Objectified — […]
Who Does She Think She Is?
by Cristin Zimmer Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, Georgia O’Keeffe, Lillian Hellman, Emily Dickenson. Not one of these creative forces in the arts had a child. Sure their influential work continues to inspire, and as a 30-year-old graduate student in fine art, I can only hope for as much […]
