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Emancipating artistic expressions from taboos, boundaries at heart of 15th Utah Film Center’s Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival

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Queer cinema has matured significantly within the last decade and, this year’s Utah Film Center’s Damn These Heels International Film Festival is a panoply of emancipating artistic expressions that break many taboos and boundaries. The 23 feature-length films, including 14 fictional narratives and nine documentaries from a dozen countries, introduce audiences to stories where different … Read more

Detailed look at the slate for 15th Utah Film Center’s Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival

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The Utah Film Center’s Damn These Heels LGBTQ Film Festival offers 23 films and three programs of short films for its 15th anniversary. Utah filmgoers have a rare opportunity to see some of the best examples of LGBTQ cinema today, as 21 films are receiving their Utah premieres and two others are being their first … Read more

Award-winning Church & State documentary on same-sex marriage comes to SLC in limited engagement

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Every documentary filmmaker inevitably struggles with the question: Do we have a story here? Five years ago, when Holly Tuckett and Kendall Wilcox assembled a creative team that included other Utah filmmakers to document Utah’s same-sex marriage case, there were many uncertainties. The prospect of three couples, the small firm of Magleby and Greenwood and … Read more

UMOCA’s Working Hard to Be Useless spiritually rich multimedia exhibition on urban spaces, defensive architecture

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Long after their brief time in the public eye has ended, some avant-garde movements exist in remnants that have been absorbed unconsciously into the philosophical and aesthetic bloodstream and reappear with respected significance decades later. In Europe, for barely more than a decade beginning in the late 1950s, the Situationist International movement attracted a great … Read more

Backstage at The Utah Arts Festival 2018: Norway’s Ready To Assemble, Utah’s Dead Air, Vietnam’s Nín thở take top Fear No Film jury honors

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Fifteen awards were announced today in the 16th annual Fear No Film portion of the Utah Arts Festival, including a Grand Jury Prize, Utah Short Film of The Year, Fear No Filmmaker Award, three honorable mentions and the best short film in each of the seven ‘band aids’ categories around which the film festival was … Read more

Backstage at The Utah Arts Festival 2018: Winners announced for Artist Marketplace, Wasatch IronPen, Literary Arts individual, team poetry slam competitions

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The 42nd Utah Arts Festival has announced various awards for visual arts and literary arts. Nine awards were presented for the Artist Marketplace. All of the visual artist award winners are eligible for invitation to the Utah Arts Festival in 2019. Best of Show and People’s Choice Award winners also will have their booth fees … Read more

Backstage at The Utah Arts Festival 2018: Utah independent filmmakers at Fear No Film include Arthur Veenema, Christopher Lee

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Of the 11 short films from Utah that are part of the 54 in this year’s Fear No Film international program of the Utah Arts Festival, three come from independent filmmakers, another sign of a strengthening film industry in the state. Tomorrow’s Shores, directed by Arthur Veenema, is one of the six short films in … Read more

Backstage at The Utah Arts Festival 2018: Closing day headliners include St. Paul and The Broken Bones, Salt Lake City Saxophone Summit, Repertory Dance Theatre, finals for individual, team poetry slams

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Closing day headliners for the Utah Arts Festival will offer their own infectious expressions of musical joy to send visitors off with pleasant memories of the 2018 event. In The Arts Fest Amplified Concert Series, St. Paul and The Broken Bones from Birmingham, Alabama closes the Amphitheatre Stage with a concert beginning at 8:30 p.m. … Read more

Backstage at The Utah Arts Festival 2018: Kevin Sybrowsky’s metal artworks synthesize vintage durable manufactured goods with witty contemporary reflections

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In his marvelously creative eye, artist Kevin Sybrowsky always sees a charming, witty story in every metal piece he makes. Scouring antique shops, thrift stories and businesses which his network of friends and colleagues alert him to check out, he sees the potential in every item he collects even before he decides how to upcycle … Read more

Backstage at The Utah Arts Festival 2018: Saturday headliners include People Under The Stairs, Guy Davis, Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley, Azwaj premiere by Saad Haddad

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Saturday’s headliners present many options for what historically are the largest crowds for single-day attendance at the Utah Arts Festival. And, with sunny skies and temperatures expected to be in the comfortable range of the mid-80s, every festival music stage will be packed. The Arts Fest Amplified Concert Series continues with People Under The Stairs … Read more