Utah film articles published in 15 Bytes, Utah’s art magazine.
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, […]
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 […]
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 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 — […]
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 […]
The Salt Lake City Film Center presents Jennifer Baichwai’s MANUFACTURED LANDSCAPES at the Salt Lake Art Center this evening (December 11) at 7pm. The screening is free. This striking new documentary is on the world and work of renowned artist Edward Burtynsky. Internationally acclaimed for his large-scale photographs […]
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 […]
Sundance Institute Documentary Film Series Wraps The 2007-2008 Season with a Free Screening Of My Kid Could Paint That On June 4th. The Sundance Institute Documentary Film Series wraps its 2007-2008 Season this week with a free screening of My Kid Could Paint That on June 4th. An […]
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 […]
