Slamdance Film Review: Beat Beat Heart

Slamdance Film Review: Beat Beat Heart
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Slamdance Film Festival’s “Beat Beat Heart,” directed by Luise Brinkmann, creatively portrays how a person heals from a heartbreak—especially in a closed-off, small-town setting. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: Cortez

Slamdance Film Review: Cortez
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Cinematically, Cortez is a beautiful film and focuses on the wild, unpredictable nature of the Southwest. It follows the story of struggling musician Jesse as he is aimlessly drifts from town to town, trying to make it as a solo musician after the breakup of his band. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: The Modern Jungle

Slamdance Film Review: The Modern Jungle
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“The Modern Jungle,” directed by Charles Fairbanks and Saul Kak, depicts life in an area of Oaxaca, Mexico, known as La Selva Negra (The Black Jungle), and follows local Zoque shaman, Juan Juarez Rodriguez and his neighbor and friend, Carmen Echavarría Gomez. … read more

Ford Clitaurus at Slamdance: MP Cunningham

Ford Clitaurus at Slamdance: MP Cunningham
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Ford Clitaurus is a 2017 Slamdance Film Festival short with an oddball sense of humor. Taking place in Salt Lake City, the story follows three friends’ misadventures, from an inspirational interview with a triathelete gone awry to a sheepdog competition to playing chess with a Sufi mystic while pondering one’s sexuality at Liberty Park. … read more

Kuro: Voice and Vignette

Kuro: Voice and Vignette
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Joji Koyama and Tujiko Noriko’s Kuro is a beautiful and slow-burning film that will steep audiences in ambiguity during its world premiere at Slamdance 2017. … read more

Infinit-O: Corazon Del Sol

Infinit-O: Corazon Del Sol
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Infinit-O is a video game that reaches into the bizarre. The player is confronted with the absurd and artistic at the same time. … read more

Dominic Rodriguez: The Persona Behind Fursonas

Dominic Rodriguez: The Persona Behind Fursonas
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Earlier this year, an eccentric little documentary called Fursonas premiered at Salt Lake’s Slamdance Film Festival. The film is less a story about trying to explain a fandom that is obsessed with anthropomorphic animal costumes, and more a story about people looking for and finding acceptance. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: All the Colors of the Night

Slamdance Film Review: All the Colors of the Night
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In this female-driven mystery, Iris attempts to piece together her memories from the night before to explain how a man wound up dead in her oceanfront apartment. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: If There’s A Hell Below

Slamdance Film Review: If There’s A Hell Below
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Debra agrees to meet with Abe, a young journalist, under the impression that she has something important to reveal in regards to national security. In real-time, we follow the two of them through a desolate landscape. … read more

Slamdance Film Review: The Tail Job

Slamdance Film Review: The Tail Job
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Nicholas hires a taxi driver to follow his fiance, whom he expects to be cheating. We follow him through his mishaps and mistakes as he tries to get to the true story. … read more