From the website:
The Utah Museum of Fine Arts presents the Fine Arts Film Series designed to provide additional insight into current UMFA exhibitions. Films are shown in the UMFA Katherine W. and Ezekiel R. Dumke Jr. Auditorium at various times throughout the year. The films are all free to the public.
Punishment Park
Wednesday, August 26 • 6 pm • Rated R for violence and language
Post-film discussion with Rocky Anderson
In this cinéma vérité-style pseudo-documentary, a group of draft dodgers and counterculture youth are banished to the desert, where they are detained and made to play a bizarre game resembling capture the flag. Almost forty years later, Punishment Park resonates eerily with our contemporary political climate. Directed by Peter Watkins (1971), this film is rated “R” for violence and language. Rocky Anderson, former mayor of SLC and executive director of High Road for Human Rights, will conduct a post-film discussion.
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