Last week the SLC Film Center announced that it is changing its name to Utah Film Center, to reflect its expanded programming, which now reaches Logan, Ogden, Moab and St. George. The name change comes as the Film Center, like Artists of Utah, celebrates its 10-year anniversary (since we’ve been serving the entire state ever since we began we don’t have any plans to change our name  — but for those of you who have always wondered why we call our monthly magazine 15 Bytes, and were embarrassed because you couldn’t explain it to your friends, it’s a reference to Andy Warhol’s iconic statement about fame: our original tagline was “giving everyone their 15 Bytes of fame.”)

The Utah Film Center programs include two annual film festivals, Tumbleweeds Film Festival for Children and Youth and the Damn These Heels! LGBT Film Festival, as well as their year-round programs: Films Without Borders,  Through the Lens, the Pioneer Park Picture Show and Creativity In Focus.

This week Creativity in Focus presents The Gates, Antonio Ferrera and Albert Maysles documentary about the historic art project created by Christo and Jeanne-Claude in New York City. The film chronicles the intricate process behind New York’s biggest-ever public art project as well as the reactions to it, which were as varied as the city that hosted it (read a review here).

The film screens at the Salt Lake Art Center at 7 pm and is free to the public.

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UTAH’S ART MAGAZINE SINCE 2001, 15 Bytes is published by Artists of Utah, a 501 (c) 3 non-profit organization headquartered in Salt Lake City, Utah.