| Show - : - -- - 44 1$ 40 44r S E3 The Salt Lake Tribune Sunday June 161991 1991 Utah Film and Video Festival: Shorts worth watching 1 a hilarious look at an annual twin convention in Twinsburgh Ms Marcoux and her identical twin Michele are not the typical conventioneer They do not have rhyming names they never dress alike and they have a history of conflict Nevertheless they agreed to attend Twin Days in Twinsburgh where more than 2500 identically dressed sets of twins converge annually in a celebration of sameness Intercut with surreal scenes of twins finishing each other's sentences are interviews with Sue and Michele in which they express ambivalence toward their twin identi- Terry Orme By THE SALT LAKE TRIBUNE ' The paradox of the Utah Short Film and Video Festival is that people in places like San Francisco New York and Los Angles know more about it than do people in Utah The festival — a national competition showcasing an eclectic array of short films and videotapes has never completely caught on F: with local audiences However it continues to attract some of the most promising new filmmakers as well as those dedi- cated to careers on the g banks of the g mainstream This year's festival — running Wednesday through Saturday — should be one of the best ever a remarkable collection of work some of it from artists much of it locally produced More than 70 films and videos are on tap Audiences will have the chance to see highlights each night at 7:30 pm in the Salt Lake Art Center Auditorium 20 S West Temple On Saturday the festival ends with a "wrap party" and awards presentations Mary Crawley director of the Utah Film and Video Center which presents the festival says its purpose is twofold: "To provide Utah film and video makers with the artistic 'testing ground' of a national competition and to provide public exposure for some of the best films and videos in the country" Judges for the competition are Michael Nash former Salt Lake City video artist who currently is media arts curator at Long Beach Museum of Art and Francine Marchetti director of New York's CinemaWorks film center Some of the festival's highlights far-flun- movie-makin- "It's all in the clothes" says Sue about the other twins "If they were naked they wouldn't look alike" Their experience ends when they win first place in the contest for twins who live the farthest apart Sue Marcoux is a recent graduate of the master's documentary film program at Stanford University "Speak Then Persephone" from San Francisco filmmakers out-of-sta- te I Scott McGehee and David Siegel is an impressionistic interpretation in a modern college milieu In the myth Persephone the daughter of Zeus and Demeter is abducted by Hades to be his wife in the lower world Hades agrees to allow her to return to her parents once a year and hence there is spring In the film Persephone is an art school student coerced by her domineering mother to leave her boyfriend for the summer and return home to Orange County Messrs McGehee and Siegel took the grand prize at the Utah Short Film and Video Festival in 1990 with "Birds Past" Also from San Francisco comes the documentary "Spray-paint- " a video essay by Nick Gorski on painter and muralist Scott Wil- follow From San Francisco comes the winner of this year's Student Academy Award competition "Twins-burg- h Some Kind of Weird Thing" Directed by Sue coux the 1 liams Mr Williams' medium is stencils and spraypaint He "seizes and appropriates" pop images from books and magazines then mixes them for an unusual brand of art Mar- documentary is - - - -- 'g'-' - ' '''' -- IL : -- ' ' ' 'tor:144"'"'':44'6411P"('-2rKr'ir'-:-:74::"p- 1 ' - h ' !:::-- 31 4 ' 42r A : ' "'"ç-1 -- - '1':t ' 4''''' wf ie 4106 "' - : 'V' '- V'0111' - tavoiroCi""me-- - i Nit 1" -- 4 - - 4 ‘ 'CI I 'i ( Ai' 4 l!'- -' 74 Owen directs Thor Neilson directs "Two Gentlemen" and after the Sunday opening it will play Friday nights Mr Burnett will direct "Hamlet" with Thom Dillon in the title role The drama will be presented on Saturdays throughout the season Curtain is 8 pm for the Shakespeare plays "Not About Heroes" will be offered Sundays The festival is also offering pre The Park City Shakespeare Festival opens its 10th season July 6 with "Hamlet" followed on July 7 with "The Two Gentlemen of Verona" and on July 8 with "Romeo and Juliet" Also this year will be Stephen MacDonald's drama set during World War J "Not About Heroes" The outdoor festival will be presented for the first time at an amphitheater on a stage at the North Star Ranch off Highway 40 Artistic director Ron Burnett said the ensemble features actors from around the United States adding "It is the most experienced company we have ever put together" ' After the opening "Romeo and Juliet" will play Thursdays Jeffrey - '''' 'Irle' fr 't : 1' - t7 ‘ 4'" ' ' I ‘ ' - ' ' o' ) ''' --- - ' - ride he wrote "Highway Song" University of Utah film student Verna Huiskamp has two films in competition: "Nut Feed" a finalist in the Student Academy Award competition and "Jiggers" "Nut Feed" is a hilarious documentary about a rural tradition: the annual castration of cattle Filming in South Dakota Ms Huiskamp follows the process from the bloody operation itself to the feast that follows where locals gather at a neard by watering hole for beer and bull testicles known is some circles as Rocky Mountain oysters "Jiggers" is another slice of rural Americana telling of two elderly Idaho women who hunt rattledeep-frie- Boruff hitchhiking the byways around Kanab where waiting for a J : ke ) ' 1 t 1 1 ONE 0 lONLY l tattill03) Sew Location in - I10-3- 0 I10-3- 0 43 toitifuL Dr c off off 20 off Iv t Akar" (iv: t:J r CUSTOM D 650 1" BLINDS Hurry Sale Expires June 291991 65! aiiAl‘ 111 4 l" 4 Wood Blinds 4 Verticals Roller Shades 4 L1414:e-I04-- - 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F : - - I A ir 1f -i4 --- 1 ' Academy Award semifinalist The festival includes a Young Media Artist category Among the entries is "The Orisha Tradition: Gods In Exile" a surprisingly sophisticated documentary on San- Tickets ranging in price from $5 to $10 are available at Smith's Tix outlets The Park City Shakespeare Festival is produced by the Intermountain Actors Ensemble Inc a nonprofit theater company in conjunction with grants from the Utah Arts Council the Summit County Travel Council and the National Endowment for the Arts :04ot e : ' 1 1st Annual 7 et vi417'' ' 16-- '- - 401'''14 the Rev Ken Gumbert who is also a Catholic priest has entered "Ritual Ways" a deeply personal film about his own interest in Native American religious rituals Father Gumbert sees native rituals as a way to better understand his own spirituality The film was a Student Another U of U film student - 1 1 b 'I i lt- snakes views of its productions: "Romeo and Juliet" July 3 "Two Gentlemen" July 4 and "Hamlet" July 6 All preview performances begin at 8 pm Additional productions include the Black History Theatre Company of Salt Lake presenting "Cry Freedom" Aug 5 and the Curtain Call Chldren's theatre presentation of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Aug 19 and 26 at 8 pm - ri ' Pli - ''4skk - - sion A woman is awakened by what she believes is an intruder trying to get into the house Is it a dream? 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