ARTS The Salt Lake Tribune ™@ MEANS ON MOVIES, D-2. BOOKS, D-5 BARTS LISTINGS, D-6-11 @ PUZZLES, D-4 SUNDAY APRIL 7, 2002 @ PUZZLE ANSWERS, D-8 Out of Olympic Hibernation UFVCresumes screeningsafter its forced four-month shutdown BY SEAN P. MEANS. THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE wo months ago, the world was swarming out: side Kent Maxwell's office and there wasn't a thing hecoulddo to take advantage ofit. “It’s reallyirritating that the big party hap- pened andweweren't allowed to participate,” said Maxwell, director of the Utah Film & VideoCenter, whichreturns from Olympic exile Friday with its first public screening in 4‘ months Thefirst show, the monthly open screening of “Works From Along the Wasatch Front”(8 p.m. Friday at the Salt Lake Art Center, S. West Temple),is indicative of the UFVC's mission: “to encouragepeople to usethis art formto explore and express themselves,” Maxwell said. “Anybody who makes films locally, [the center] will give them a venue to screen,” said Salt Lake filmmaker Trent Harvis, who has shown his films and teach classesat L It's analternativeto theuniversity, andan alternative to the art theaters, whichstill only show mainstream art movies.” The UFVC screens unusual movie: like its current monthly screenings of Spanish surrealist Luis Bufuel It offers classes for would-be filmmakers “whodon't want to go through the university system,” Harris said. Thecenter also rents cameras, microphonesandeditFrancisco Kjolseth/The Salt Lake Tribune ing stations. “Kent's got the best equipment around . . and he knows moreabout non-linear editing than any- Kent Maxwell, director of the Utah Film & Video Center, is back at work after being exiled from the center's Salt Lake Art Center headquarters because of Olympic security. He is surrounded by posters for locally producedfilms. See UFVC, Page D-6 Madeleine Opera aethe Mystery of Faith BY CATHERINE REESE TON ON) aes | THE SALT LAKE TRIB! Opera returns to the Cathedral of the Madeleine tonight, when a Utah Operaproduction of Stephen Paulus’ “The Three Hermits” opens the Madeleine Festival Of the Arts and The hourlong opera was written in 1997 for church performance: This is its secondproduction, andthefirst by a professional cast. Librettist Mickael Dennis Browne adapted the “Thereis a spiritualityintrinsic to the piecethatis Hermits in the Cathedral unschooled hermits on a remote island. “For the Bishop, it’s about his tofinding out whatit’s re” said baritone Jeffrey portrays the Bishop. “We're all ‘people of God, and we shouldall be Madeleine not necessarily ofany Festival opera onereligiot aid conductor Douglas Kinney-Frost, Utah Opera'sassistant Utah Opera presents “The Three Hermits” tonight at 8 in “The Three Hermits.” conductor and resident chorus mas- the Cathedralof the ter. “It suet internal spirituality rather than religion or dogma.” Madeleine, 331 E. South Tem. ple. Admission is free. Com: That said, poserStephen Paulus andli brettist Michael Dennis Brownewill talk about their work from 6:15 to7:15 p.m. in the Chorus Room on the lower level of the cathedral. “It's not anti-organized religion at all,” Raysaid ‘As the Bishopsees the Hermits as being strange and different because they don’t practice the same rituals, he sees them as lesser people than | | he,” he said. “That's not true at all. Instead of seeing differences as reasons to change or conquer others, we should see them asgifts from God and storyfromLeoTolstoy's retelling of a Russian folk tale of a bishop who learns a lesson in faith from three Jeffrey Ray, left, as the Bishop and Todd Miller as a hermitin the humble.” The Bishop sets out to give the Hermits some religion and teaches them the Lord's Prayer, with some reasonsto really celebrate.” It's really an issue of getting back in touch with whatit is to havefaith, said director Alexander Gelman.“It's difficulty. 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