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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Officials for Utah-based Associated Food Stores announced Monday the new name of the state's 34 Albertsons supermarkets the company recently bought: Fresh Market. (This is not to be confused with The Fresh Market, a chain operating in the South, Midwest and Mid-Atlantic states.)

The new name went into effect Monday, though Associated officials said it won't be until January that new Fresh Market signage will be installed at the stores.

The new signs will go up early, though, in Park City — to take advantage of ski season.

The Park City Albertsons, though, a familiar stop for Sundance Film Festival visitors — the most visible place to get groceries and beer. The Albertsons' parking lot is infamous during the festival for its tow trucks waiting to pounce, vulture-like, on drivers who stay too long.

The bus stop outside the Park City Albertsons is also a central transfer point for the festival's shuttle-bus service — a pickup/drop-off spot for the Holiday Village and the Yarrow, and often used for those going to the Eccles, the Racquet Club or the Temple Theatres.

Sundance regulars will have to reorient themselves to find the bus stop without the big "A" to guide them.

But that doesn't mean one of the programming staff, Bridgette Bates, couldn't take a minute to report on the progress — and humorously answer a few questions for nervous filmmakers.

Yes, every disc does get watched at least once. If a disc arrives broken, the programmers will contact the filmmaker to send another one. (Once, a filmmaker deliberately sent a broken disc, to squeeze a little more editing time after the deadline — but now the Sundance folks are onto that scam.)

So far, Bates wrote, the programmers have noticed a lot of movies about horses. (Last year, boxing was a big recurring theme.)

Bribes are not recommended, though the programmers have received some doozies:

The best item we've received this year was a bag of candy corn, which is kind of sad considering that in the past we've received such zany items as a unicycle, a fondue machine, a giant boot that was spray painted gold, and some amazing sneakers that had the word "Hustler" bedazzled all over them.  We ask that applicants not send anything other than their DVD, but we do miss the copious amounts of candy we used to get every week (hint, hint).

The programming staff finished its work around Thanksgiving, and the slate is usually announced in early December.

In the case of Cara Perlman's documentary, though, Sundance doesn't seem that unlikely — because of the timing and proximity of her subject matter.

Perlman's film, "FlyGirls," tells the story of six members of the U.S. women's ski-jumping team (including Lindsay Van, pictured), who train in Park City and have fought to be recognized with Olympic status.

Ski jumping is the one winter sport where the International Olympic Committee still hangs the no-girls-allowed sign. In spite of almost-unanimous approval from the International Ski Federation, the IOC still refuses to allow women to ski-jump — and won a recent court ruling to keep the women jumpers out of the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver.

According to USA Today, Perlman is shopping "FlyGirls" to Sundance and other festivals. Sundance would be the optimum venue, since it takes place in Park City — and starts just 22 days before the opening ceremonies in Vancouver.