Movie Cricket

Want to walk around the world without leaving Park City? Collaborate on an art project with a guy last seen snogging Zooey Deschanel? Get a job after the apocalypse?

All that and more are available from the 10 installations and two performance works announced for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival's New Frontier on Main exhibits.

New Frontier on Main, curated by Sundance's Shari Frilot, takes place downstairs in Park City's Main Street Mall, 333 Main St., Park City, during from January 21 to 30.

Here's a thumbnail rundown of the installation artists. For more details, go to the festival's web site:

• Gina Czarnecki's "Nascent," "Cell Mass N2" and "Infected" — Czarnecki is a multimedia artist who "explores the convergence of biology, sensuality, dance, and the cinematic in her mesmerizing single channel installations."

• Petko Dourmana's "Post Global Warming Survival Kit" — What looks like an old caravan is actually a workplace for the person assigned "to observe the border between the land and the rising sea," using night-vision devices.

•  Thomas Gläser and Jens Franke's "The Earthwalk" — Google Earth is projected onto the floor, allowing people "to surf the globe with their feet." (Here's video of the piece.)

•  Joseph Gordon-Levitt's "hitRECord.org" — The guy from "(500) Days of Summer" (pictured) "invites audiences to collectively collaborate with him in the filmmaking process, and create, record, and remix each other’s art." The finished product will be screened at the end of the festival.

• Eric Gradman's "Cloud Mirror" — A "magic mirror" allows people to see themselves in the flesh and in their social-network identities. (Here's a video of the piece.)

•  Works by Michael Joaquin Grey — A computational artist who creates "objects" out of film — using everything from Miles Davis and "The Wizard of Oz" to slime molds and M.C. Escher.

• Ragnar Kjartansson's "The End" — Kjartansson, an Icelandic musician and performance artist, creates a five-channel installation of a "magical surround sound concert" performed at five locations in the Canadian Rockies. (Here's a video.)

•  Matthew Moore's "Lifecycles" — Moore, a fourth-generation Arizona farmer, "reconfigures the produce section of a Park City grocery store and transforms the experience of shopping for vegetables into a beautiful meditation that brings us closer to the lifecycles of the produce we buy and consume."

• Pipilotti Rist's "Lobe of the Lung: The Saliva Ooze Away to the Underground" — A "fully immersive installation" based on her movie "Pepperminta" (which will screen in Sundance's New Frontier film program), which stars "two humans, a pig, and an earthworm."

• Tracey Snelling's "Bordertown" — Depicting in miniature a Mexican/American border region, using photos, film and audio to tell the story of the place and the people there.

• Nao Bustamante's "Silver and Gold" — What the artist calls a "filmformance" is inspired by filmmaker Jack Smith's tribute to '40s Dominican starlet Maria Montez, for "a magical and joyfully twisted exploration of race, glamour, sexuality, and the silver screen." Performances are set for Sunday, Jan. 24; Tuesday, Jan. 26; and Thursday, Jan. 28; at 6 p.m. each night.

• Kalup Linzy's "Sweet, Sampled, and Left Ova" — A multimedia musical performance billed as "a splendid mix of southern culture, daytime soap opera, and the raunchy, shady humor of black gay culture, all turbocharged with fierce DIY Network determination." (Linzy's YouTube station is here.) Showtimes are: Saturday, Jan. 23; Monday, Jan. 25; and Wednesday, Jan. 27; at 6 p.m. each night.

Last week, the Cricket interviewed director Lee Daniels about his critically acclaimed movie "Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire," and he expressed his exasperation with publicizing his movie — and his need to get to work on his next one.

He had two projects in the hopper: One was a musical with Hugh Jackman, the other was a drama about the pivotal 1965 civil-rights march in Selma, Alabama.

Today, Daily Variety announced that Daniels has made his choice: He's in negotiations to direct "Selma," and will team with British producer Christian Colson ("Slumdog Millionaire") to make it happen.

If you want to get individual tickets to the 2010 Sundance Film Festival, today's the first day to register for that opportunity.

Click here if you live in Utah (to get the locals-only deals) and click here if you live somewhere else. There also are still a limited number of passes and packages available, here.

Not to throw a colleague under the bus, but the Tribune's Vince Horiuchi's review of the "Star Trek" DVD (hitting store shelves today) is way off the mark.

"A bombastic, action-packed, 'Star Wars'-esque — and ultimately dumbed-down — movie that is anything but true 'Trek,' " is how Horiuchi described J.J. Abrams' new movie, which he gave a lowly C+ grade.

The "Trek" defenders came out in force on the Tribune web site, with dozens throwing in their comments in disagreement.

If you want the Cricket's review of "Star Trek," here is is from May.

OK, people of the Wasatch Front, how badly do you want to see "The Twilight Saga: New Moon"?

Will you bleed for it?

Today's your chance. Radio stations KBER 101 and 94.9 Z-Rock are hosting a blood drive for the American Red Cross today, from 2 to 7 p.m. — and those who donate blood have a chance to win tickets to a Wednesday-night advance screening of "New Moon."

KBER is holding its blood drive at the American Red Cross offices at 6619 S. 900 East, Midvale. Z-Rock will be at the American Red Cross, 384 E 1300 South, Orem.

Maybe they'll give some blood to that Bella chick. She looks like she's a quart low.