18 January 1996 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 1996 trailer in HD below or find more Deseret videos on Vidimovie.
United States 18 January 1996
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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.
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20 June 1996
The film discusses a father's unability to grow his children due to the rreason that their mother is no more.
14 February 1996
Carla's (Rita Magdalena) sister commits suicide. Devastated, she decides to go to the province.. where she wreaks havoc among the men.
21 November 1996
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17 June 1996
Chris and Peter live and work in the apartment belonging to Birgit, Peter's former girlfriend and Chris' present girlfriend.
10 June 1996
When recently single Steven moves into his new apartment, cable guy Chip comes to hook him up—and doesn't let go.
01 January 1996
Sgt. John Paul Quezada (Dolphy) gets Col. Macanto (Babalu) through a series of unfortunate events. Sgt.
07 September 1996
Comprised of a series of bizarre and unrelated episodes, this absurd Italian comedy earned the inglorious honor of being the film with the most audience walkouts at the 1996 Venice Film Festival.
27 November 1996
An evil, high-fashion designer plots to steal Dalmatian puppies in order to make an extravagant fur coat, but instead creates an extravagant mess.
01 January 1996
Working outside the mainstream, the wildly prolific, visionary Stan Brakhage made more than 350 films over a half century.
13 September 1996
Corky, a tough female ex-convict working on an apartment renovation in a Chicago building, meets a couple living next door, Caesar, a paranoid mobster, and Violet, his seductive girlfriend, who is immediately attracted to her.
18 October 1996
The dynamic PR-agent Hannah is starting up her dream-job in the Hochstedt Company producing toys and soon falls in love with her firm's junior executive director, Wolfgang.
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Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1996 The Rockefeller Foundation.