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Show Signpost February 1, 1993 Trials and Tribulations mark genre for 1993 Sundance Film Festival The man and his music... 8 i i MICHAEL BORISKIN will be acompanying Joseph Silverstein on piano this Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. in Symphony Hall. Biennial Photography Exhibition A call for entries The deadline for slide submissions for this year's Mountain West IV Biennial Photography Exhibition is Feb. 15. The 1993 Biennial Photography Exhibition is scheduled for March 31 to May 9 at the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art at the Utah State University, Logan. All submissions will be juried by Professor Peter Goin from the Department of Art at the University of Nevada-Reno. Goin, known for his "Nuclear Landscapes" exhibition presented across the United States, was recently positioned asArtist-in-Resi-dence at the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke University. All entries must be original photographic works or original works derived from photographic processes, created within the last two years. Only residents from Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, Montana, Nevada, New Mexico, Oregon, Texas, Utah, Washington and Wyoming are eligible. And ..-: - V " -.SMW:i? ;-. COURTESY PHOTO each applicant is limited to three entries,(photographs or slides), with a non-refundable, $20 entry fee made payableby check or money order, to the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art. A completed entry form and a self-addressed, stamped envelope should be enclosed with check or money order for the returning of slides andor jury results. Original works accepted for exhibition, with theacception of slides, must be recieved no later than Wednesday, March 24 and all works accepted will be insured by the Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art while on the premises. Up to $2000 in purchase award are available upon recommendation by the juror. Those purchased will become part of the gallery's permanent collection. For more information contact: Fourth Biennial Photgraphy Exhibition 1993, Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, Utah State University, Logan, Ut 84322-4020; or call (801) 750-1412. VV -SUA - AM 1 Associated Press PARK CITY, Utah While Hollywood cranks outlarger-than-life tales of genies, passionate bodyguards and a few good courtroom theatrics, independent filmmakers are findinglife itself is large enough. If there is any clear trend at the 15th Sundance Film Festival, it is that everyday personal difficulties anchor more stories than ever before. A generation of writers and directors who came of age in the 1970s and '80s are transforming experience and observation into a variety of accounts of modern living. The festival, which ends Sunday, consequently is filled with straightforward takes on dysfunctional families, doomed love and broken homes. "It's all about examining families with a critical eye," said Geoff Gilmore, the festival's director. "We looked at 225 other films that aren't here. I can't tell you how many other titles had dysfunctional families at their center." When families aren't wobbling, individuals are. "Ruby in Paradise," probably the festival's most talked-about film,spends its two hours with a young woman named Ruby who has fled her Tennessee home, though not because of anything dramatic, like getting pregnant or beaten up. Her unsatisfying past at least geographically behind her, Ruby tries to find herself in a small city on Florida's Gulf Coast "How do you live a life? How do you find a way? That's what this is about," said the movie's writer and director, Victor Nunez. "Even if you come from a perfect family, you have to make that split and find who you are." Other movies hinge on feuding brothers, single-parent households, strained marriages and yuppie relationships gone sour. Even 'Twenty Bucks," a snappy Junction Big By TROY LYBBERT Signpost staff writer The Junction BigCity Band will be performing 40's swing music at a dance that will be held in the Shepherd Union Building Ballroom at Weber State University on Friday night, February 5. The dance will run from 8:30 until 11:30 p.m. comedy following the path of one $20 bill, has at its center a young woman whose father criticizes her career choice of writing. "Welcome to the '90s," said Gillian Armstrong, who directed 'The Last Days of Chez Nous," set in a household on the verge of collapse. "It's a time of change and people are working all this stuff out." Her Australian feature, due in theaters in February, is led by Beth, a successful novelist whose husband doesn't sleep with her and whose father doesn't communicate with her. And that's just the beginning of her travails. "We all love and hate ourselves. We all have our ups and downs," Ms. Armstrong said. Conventional movie storytelling, she said, tends to smooth over such complications in favor of formula-driven simplicity. "With this film, more than anything I've done, people have deeply personal reactions," said the director, whose credits include "My Bril- A generation of writers and directors who came of age in the 1970s and '80s are transforming experience and observation into a variety of accounts of modern living. liant Career" and "Mrs. Soffel." "I've been told by many people that they went home and talked about their marriages'Nunez said no producers were interested in his script for "Ruby in Paradise" 1 12 years ago. These days, several companies are weighing bids for his film, and audience reaction has been strong. "Maybe I'm in sync with Band performing at UB and the tickets will be $5.00 per person. The 40's "swing era" band was put together during the 1987 school year and is sponsored by the WSU Department of Performing Arts, under the direction of Dr. Donald Keipp. There are two reasons for forming the band. First, it gave those musicians who enjoy play i m the times," he said. "Mac," the directorial debut from actor John Turturro, was inspired by the life and outlook of Turturro's own father, an immigrant carpenter. The film uses homebuilding as a metaphor for tradition and togetherness. With his two brothers, Mac (Turturro) starts a construc tion company. Between roofs, joists and door frames, the brothers' accomplishments and fights on the job highlight the strains of family at home. Writer-director Alison Maclean's first feature, "Crush," looks at Colin, a middle-aged novelist who wants either to write a best seller or save his marriage, and manages neither. Into his fragile life comes Elaine, an aggressively independent woman. Asked by Colin what her romantic commitment to him is, she brusquely responds, "I've stayed. That's all it means. I've stayed." "Fly By Night," a story of New York rappers, includes both impersonal, unsatisfyingro-mance and a father """ who abandons his young wife and son. In "Rift," two young men clash over a woman who, in a-true salute to modem love, happens to be married to one of the men and dating the other one's psychiatrist. "Bodies, Rest & Motion" puts four - " ' young people in the same neighborhood and watches as they pair off and break apart. All it can suggest in the end is a vague possibility of reconciliation.All of these films are far more optimistic about getting along than "Boxing Helena." In that film, a doctor amputates all of a woman's limbs so she will come to love him. Apparently, the beautiful flowers he sent weren't working. ing swing-type music a chance to play. It also provided the people of Ogden and the surrounding communities a chance to hear,and dance, to the "oldies but goodies". The band provides music which includes favorites from such classic musicians as Count Basie, Glenn Miller and ( See BIG BAND page 9) Hi Does Your Heart Good. W American Heart Association V.I.T.A Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Free Income Tax Help Tues 7:30-9:30am Wed 5:00-6:00pm Fri 10:30-1 2:30pm Wattis Business Building Room 118 Courtesy of PAS and VIP Am |