01 January 1995 Factual 82 mins
This is multifaceted look at the landscape and history of Utah (or Deseret, as the Mormon Church prefers to call it). Benning condenses 93 news stories from the New York Times from 1852 to 1992 (read offscreen by Fred Gardner) and sets them against contemporary Utah landscapes, the shots changing with each sentence.
Watch the official Deseret 1995 trailer in HD below or find more Deseret videos on Vidimovie.
United States 01 January 1995
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More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from Deseret:
"Deseret" es el nombre propuesto por los mormones al solicitar la declaración de estado del territorio donde se establecería más tarde Utah. La película ...
Deseret es el nombre propuesto por los mormones al solicitar la declaración de estado del territorio donde se establecería más tarde Utah. La película combina ...
Ed Dimendberg introduces filmmaker James Benning. Before screening his 1995 movie “Deseret” Benning briefly discusses how he compiled 93 sentences ...
Deseret es el nombre propuesto por los mormones al solicitar la declaración de estado del territorio donde se establecería más tarde Utah. La película combina ...
Voiceover by Ed Bishop.
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1995:
20 September 1995
A romantic-action directed by Abbo DeLa Cruz featuring Gardo Versoza and Priscilla Almeda.
07 October 1995
Two erotic tales. In "Sexual Fantasies OF the Great Outdoors," Marilyn stalks her male "prey" and introduces us to a sexy phantom hitchhiker, a natural bathing beauty, and two luscious lesbian boating babes.
01 January 1995
Drama based on a real-life story of a love affair between a married army captain and a young female soldier.
24 March 1995
A woman calling herself Princess Oryu enters the woman's prison. She is Kasumi, the daughter of the famous magistrate, Ooka Echizen, who slowly after hearing each of the prisoner's stories begins to realize the mystery that lies behind what it could be a big conspiracy.
05 April 1995
Private investigator Nick Sharman accepts a case which at first seems intriguing, but ends up causing him bitter regret.
01 January 1995
Hahamishia Hakamerit (Hebrew: החמישייה הקאמרית, The Kameri Quintet) was a weekly Israeli satirical sketch comedy television program created by Asaf Tzipor, who was also the main writer of the show, and Eitan Tzur, who directed the entire run of the show.
08 November 1995
Political satire about the billion-euro loan to the GDR in 1983, which was arranged by Franz-Josef Strauß and Alexander Schalck-Golodkowski to save a bankrupt bank.
26 April 1995
Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital in the rainforests of Gabon, achieved sainthood in his lifetime, at least in the popular imagination.
06 March 1995
Lieutenant Rick Hunter's girlfriend is murdered, and the main suspect is her ex-husband. But Hunter is soon convinced of a connection to another case.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1995 The Rockefeller Foundation.
