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Deseret
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Saturday Sep 11, 2010 (8:30pm)
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$10
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Completed a year before the 1996 centennial of Utah's statehood—and titled after the Mormons' original, rejected name for the state—James Benning's Deseret explores the state through fragments of history and topography. As it impassively records Utah's majestic landscapes and quiet man-made constructions, ninety-three articles from the New York Times from 1852 to 1992 are excerpted in voiceover, documenting Mormon codes, the construction of Robert Smithson's Spiral Jetty, violence between Mormons, Indians, the federal government and government-sanctioned toxic waste dumping.
Director: James Benning. 82 min. 1995. 16mm.
