Films
UPCOMING FILMS AND SCREENINGS:
MAY 18 – 7PM. Free.
Afterimage: The Art of 337
Celebrating the 337 Project anniversary
An abandoned building. 150 Utah artists. 10,000 visitors.
There are very few events that can truly be called “historic,” but there is no other way to describe the 337 Project. Bursting onto the Salt Lake art scene in May 2007, the 337 Project changed the relationship between Utah artists, their art, and the viewing public forever.
Whether you arrived in Utah too late to experience the 337 Project, or whether you just want to relive the magic of those brief six days, now you can see it all in this special Fifth Anniversary screening of Afterimage: The Art of 337. Brimming with stunning high-definition footage of the artwork, as well as interviews with artists, project organizers, and visitors, Afterimage will take you through the entire life of the event–from the fateful first meeting until the building’s last breath.
A film by Alex Haworth and Davey Davis.
Please join us at UMOCA for a special Fifth Anniversary screening on May 18, 2012, at 7 PM exactly five years after the 337 Project first opened to the public.
“337′s legacy remains in our hearts.”–City Weekly
Utah’s “coolest public art phenomenon . . . an art utopia.”–Salt Lake Tribune
“It’s the Woodstock of Salt Lake City. Your grandchildren will ask you, ‘Were you at 337?’”–Shawn Rossiter, 15 Bytes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VWc4tzw6Mk
PAST FILMS AND SCREENINGS:
MAY 9 – 7 PM. Free.
Ganito: How to Nail a Dictator
Sundance Film Official Selection
Part of KUED’s Woman and Girls Lead Film Series
Part political thriller, part memoir, Granito: How to Nail a Dictator shadows a haunting crime across four decades. As activists, experts and lawyers build an international human rights case against a Guatemalan military dictator, Pamela Yates’s 1982 film When the Mountains Tremble emerges as forensic evidence – a witness to the genocide it documented.
KUED’s Woman and Girls Lead Film Series is part of a comprehensive outreach engagement project highlighting the obstacles and opportunities women face as they step forward to make a difference. For more information visit www.kued.org/diversevoices
ART 21 Preview Screening
Apr 6, 7 PM
UMOCA, in partnership with Art21 as part of its Access ’12 initiative, will present a sneak preview in advance of the premiere of the sixth season of Art in the Twenty-First Century, the only prime time national television series focused exclusively on contemporary art. UMOCA’s preview will feature segments on Ai Weiwei, Catherine Opie, and assume vivid astro focus. This event is free and open to the public.
CREATIVITY IN FOCUS FILM SERIES: SPRING 2012
Held on second Fridays at 7:00 PM. Presented in partnership with Utah Film Center.
JAN 13
The Color of Your Socks: A Year with Pipilotti Rist
Directed by Michael Hegglin
The documentary THE COLOR OF YOUR SOCKS – A YEAR WITH PIPILOTTI RIST follows the Swiss video artist Pipilotti Rist as she prepares for a major show at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Since winning the Duemila Prize at the Biennale di Venezia in 1997, Rist has established herself as a major presence in video art. For the first time, she lets a documentary filmmaker into her world, providing insight into her creative process, the development of projects and the collaboration with her team.
Pipilotti’s playful personality is infectious and permeates her work. Director Michael Hegglin’s camera captures a unique, intimate portrait of the artist at work.
In Swiss German, German, and English with English and French subtitles.
Rist presented LOBE OF LUNG: THE SALIVA OOZE AWAY TO THE UNDERGROUND at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival as part of the New Frontier program and was selected for the 2011 Sundance Institute New Frontier Story program.
FEB 10
I Am Secretly an Important Man
Directed by Peter Sillen
I AM SECRETLY AN IMPORTANT MAN is a feature length documentary film portrait of Steven J. Bernstein (aka Jesse Bernstein), one of Seattle’s most celebrated voices. His angry, surprisingly fresh, lyrical writings are about sensitive souls, drifters and drug addicts; people alienated by a society that refuses to understand them. He peeled back the ugliness and the darkness of life on the fringe to expose tender and not so tender human feeling. His unique rhythms, filled with humor and pain, were especially exciting when read in his own gravely voice. People packed into theaters, bars and cafes to hear him read and sing. Unfortunately much of Jesse’s work has not yet found the audience it deserves outside the Pacific Northwest.
March 9
Arc of Light: A Portrait of Anna Campbell Bliss
Directed by Cid Collins Walker
*** Anna Campbell Bliss will be in attendance for a post screening Q+A***
ARC OF LIGHT: A PORTRAIT OF ANNA CAMPBELL BLISS, traces the broad spectrum of this important artist’s life and work, ranging from the aesthetic influences of her early childhood and her ground-breaking career as a Harvard-trained architect to her emergence as a cutting-edge artist whose work fuses and astonishing range of elements, including architecture, mathamatics, computer technology, painting, printmaking and calligraphy. The documentary film examines the roots of Bliss’s art in the Bauhaus school, which flourished in Germany in the 1920s, and how the Bauhaus artists influenced the development of Bliss’s extensive contribution of American modern art.
APR 13
Shit Year
Directed by Cam Archer
Renowned actress Colleen West (Ellen Barkin) abandons her successful career for a secluded life in the hills. But the quiet and peace of mind she longed for is disrupted by the noisy construction of neighboring housing developments. Before long, Colleen discovers that she really can’t stand herself now that she has given up the only thing that she has ever truly been passionate about.
As an alternative to isolation, she reluctantly befriends her jubilant, whimsical neighbor (Melora Walters) and reconnects with her estranged brother (Bob Einstein) who drops by unannounced after hearing about her retirement. Haunted by loneliness and past desires, Colleen begins to feel as if she has lived her life through the characters she has played on stage and screen. Ultimately, she is forced to confront loss, her failures and mistakes, by reliving a recent affair with younger actor Harvey West (Luke Grimes) whom she met during her final stage performance. Reality becomes inseparable from Colleen’s unhinged obsessions in a hallucinatory struggle to accept her own vulnerability and reclaim herself.
2010 Cannes Directors Fortnight, 2010 AFI Film Festival