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Show Artist' s short subjects to be screened Working movie-makers are alive and well and turning out professional films in Utah. And in its Underexposed Under-exposed series, the Utah Media Center (located in the Salt Lake Art Center) aims to bring the work of local film artists to the public eye. Tonight at 8 p.m. the short films of University of Utah film studies ( teacher Brian Patrick will be i featured. I- " i TwV6f 'the short movies (none Is ; more than a half hour long) chosen by Patrick for this retrospective have appeared nationally on public television ("On Their Honor" and "Testimony") while others have competed in film festivals. Here's a preview of the five documentaries to be shown: ' ' Testimony' ' (1 969 ) examines a Pentecostal church in Athens, Ohio where the congregation speaks in tongues. "Honeymoon" (1972) is a 17-minute, 16-mm "elaborate home movie" of Patrick and his wife's 8,000-mile wedding trip from Ohio to Mexico aboard a 500-cc motorcycle. "On Their Honor" (1973) is about 30 men detained in a medium-security honor-system prison pri-son camp in Ohio. As the prisoners work in the woods cutting down trees and stripping the bark, they ponder the reasons they're in prison and their hopes and dreams on getting out. Patrick said he was backpacking in the area when he stumbled on the camp and, though he had a grant to do a film on another topic, his interest made him switch. A trip Patrick and his mother made to the Mideast seven years ago is the subject of "Egyptology" . .(1978). The "impressionistic docu-' docu-' menfary," said Patrick, is "a satire -of going to Egypt, the myth of the land of the pharaohs." "Dance Journal" (1983) follows the University of Utah Performing Dance Company on a tour of Scotland and England. Patrick juxtaposes scenes of the performers dancing on the beach with actual performances in "big and little indoor auditoriums." "Scotland is a lot like Appalachian Appala-chian said Patrick. "They don't have the huge auditoriums available for dance numbers." Patrick doesn't enjoy promoting I his own films, preferring to work j instead on promoting those of his 1 students. But "I'm pleased with my career," he said, "I have two films going now." The program is free. For more information, call 534-1158. |