1001 Movies #816
An experimental documentary, made on the centennial of Utah’s statehood, in which static shots of Utah’s diverse landscape are overlaid with voiceover narrations of New York Times articles on Utah from the 1850s through the 1990s. The shots vary from cave paintings, to factories, to mountainous landscapes, to Mormon churches. The stories proceed from the brutal colonialism of Brigham Young, to Army conflicts with Indigenous nations, to nuclear testing, to later armed resistance by polygamous sects. This montage…
