Sundance Film Festival

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.

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.

X-Dance, the action-sports movie event that started as an unofficial sidebar to the Sundance Film Festival, is celebrating its 10th anniversary in January — and will mark the occasion by paying tribute to the granddaddy of ski movies, Warren Miller.

Miller will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award from X-Dance on Jan. 26, at the festival's closing-night ceremonies. Miller also will be an honorary festival judge, and take part in the X-Dance Institute forum.

Brian Wimmer, director and founder of X-Dance, gushed about Miller in a statement: "Warren Miller is one of the biggest inspirations in my life. Warren's films, back in the day, were an exciting sign of the pending winter season to come. It wasn't ski season until you heard Warren's voice. X-Dance was created with that inspiration in mind!"

X-Dance runs Jan. 21-26, headquartered at the Off-Broadway Theatre, 272 S. Main St., Salt Lake City. The location for the closing-night award ceremony and party are yet to be determined. For information on tickets and festival passes, go to the X-Dance web site.

In Wednesday's announcement of the Sundance Film Festival USA program — which will bring the fun and films of Park City to eight American cities on Thursday, Jan. 28 — there was another bit of buried news: We now know the title of one movie playing the festival.

That movie is "The Shock Doctrine," a documentary by filmmakers Michael Winterbottom and Mat Whitecross ("The Road to Guantanamo") based on Naomi Klein's book of the same name. The movie makes Klein's case that corporations engage in "disaster capitalism," pushing economic change to their own benefit while people are reeling from shock in their societies — whether it be war, natural disaster or terrorist attack.

A work-in-progress cut of "The Shock Doctrine" played at the Berlin Film Festival in February. The Sundance screening will be the film's North American premiere. The screening will be followed by a discussion featuring Klein, Winterbottom, Whitecross and Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford.

Can't get to the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City?

Sundance will bring the festival to you — if you live in eight American cities.

Sundance organizers today announced "Sundance Film Festival USA," bringing festival films and special events to eight cities on Thursday, Jan. 28, 2010 — during the festival's run in Park City.

The program aims, according to Sundance Institute founder Robert Redford, "to ignite dialogue as people across the country engage in a collective film experience. It is an extension, really, of the work we have done for decades: supporting the independent voice, bringing artists to the table and inserting art more and more into the social context of how we live."

Titles for the films to be show in the eight cities has yet to be announced (the festival's slate won't be released until early December). Here are the cities and theaters where the events will take place:

• Ann Arbor, Mich. — Michigan Theater
• Brookline, Mass. — Coolidge Corner Theatre
• Brooklyn, N.Y. -- BAM
• Chicago — Music Box Theatre
• Los Angeles — Downtown Independent
• Madison, Wisc. — Sundance Cinemas Madison
• Nashville — The Belcourt Theatre
• San Francisco — Sundance Kabuki Cinemas

Meanwhile that night, in Park City, Sundance will host the North American premiere of the documentary "The Shock Doctrine." Directed by Michael Winterbottom ("Tristram Shandy," "A Mighty Heart") and Mat Whitecross (Winterbottom's collaborator on "The Road to Guantanamo"), and based on Naomi Klein's book, the movie exposes "how shock is used to implement economic policy in vulnerable environments." The screening at the Eccles Theatre will be followed by a conversation with Winterbottom, Whitecross, Klein and Redford.