James Benning took the founding of the New York Times in 1851 as a departure point for his latest film, Deseret. In the best Benning tradition, Deseret unfolds magnificent landscapes captured with a stationary camera during a dozen-odd trips throughout the calendar year - deserts, plains of snow, lonely trails, trees in bloom, cemeteries, ruins, unfriendly rocks, empty settlers' houses, roads that seem to be leading nowhere, a few isolated human figures. Deseret's starkly composed images suggest a space haunted by the official history written back East in the Times. Benning collected 93 stories about Utah, boiled them down to a few lines and used a different shot to 'illustrate' each sentence. As we reach 1900, his black and white footage spectacularly turns to color. The stories told recount the loss of American innocence: from the woes and persecution of the Mormons, the fights with the Indians... Written by Anonymous

Escaping the past, a man and a woman arrive in LA. They rent a car to travel to Utah, planning to commit suicide together. Crossing the desert, some unknown emotions arise within them both, but everything is doomed to end soon. Is there really no tomorrow for them?

著名的纪录片导演Michael Moore在总统大选前夕，在各地巡回演讲，而当他安排在Utah犹他州的Utah Valley State College学院演讲，而当地的民众却开始有了强烈的反应。因为犹他州是最具有共和党倾向的一个州，当地的摩门教及其宗教信徒占有人口的百分比很高。就在民主党支持者Michael Moore到来之前，支持言论自由，比较容易接受进步思想的学院学生与当地摩门教信徒和传统的共和党支持者之间就产生了严重的分歧。 共和党支持者，以及摩门教教会组织纷纷抵制这次演讲，以各种方式向校方施压，甚至以金钱诱惑，在校园内与反对意见的学生和教师做面对面的辩论。美国的宪章第一条，言论自由，在这个Utah州受到了极大的挑战。从一个小小的校园演讲，就可以看到美国政治斗争的复杂。

来自犹他州的约翰·韦斯顿协助希格斯警长对一伙镇上的牛仔竞技表演团伙进行调查，他们骗取了镇上人民的大量钱财，并秘密杀害了顶级牛圈骑手表演者。

几个姐妹正在小屋中欢度假期，却遭到了几个戴面具闯入者的袭击，她们必须拼尽全力，才能熬过这一夜。

一位年轻男子在失去母亲后，与一名专门从事切除术和治疗的医生一起工作的故事。

作品起源于疫情期间和家人共处于同一封闭空间的切身感受。因我和家庭长期的时空不对等，而将彼此都封锁在8年前的家庭之中，在那个时空，儿时的玩伴、年轻的父母、故去的亲人和稚嫩的我都仍在有条不紊的生活。 作品中，我将一个家庭置身于8年前的一场家庭宴会中，通过三个片段来搭建出呈现三代人生活日常的错时性空间。在这场宴会上，有人想制作一个精美的蛋糕，有人想办一场热闹的宴会，有人在思念从前的日子…