burying religious artifact in salt flats at movie conclusion

In 1938, an art collector appeals to eminent archaeologist Dr. Indiana Jones to embark on a search for the Holy Grail. Indy learns that a medieval historian has vanished while searching for it, and the missing man is his own father, Dr. Henry Jones Sr.. He sets out to rescue his father by following clues in the old man's notebook, which his father had mailed to him before he went missing. Indy arrives in Venice, where he enlists the help of a beautiful academic, Dr. Elsa Schneider, along with Marcus Brody and Sallah. Together they must stop the Nazis from recovering the power of eternal life and taking over the world!

A special examining the appeal of real-life daredevils and heroic figures compared with their fictional counterparts as portrayed in adventure films.

Geological elements and erosion leave marks on a strip of 70mm film that floated in the Dead Sea and soaked in clay before getting stuffed in a suitcase to be brought back to Los Angeles, where it was submerged and sat in buckets filled with mud and salt for years in the artist’s studio. After five years, Jennifer West dragged the film along the mud and salt crystal encrusted spiral of Robert Smithson’s Spiral Jetty before throwing it in the icy pink waters of Utah’s Great Salt Lake—the film’s frames were then digitally photographed and re-stitched together. Through material traces of mud, salt crystals and sand, distant places and layered temporalities flicker across a film that lasts less than one minute.

From the creators of Gob-A-Goo comes more found footage detailing the abduction of Matthew to the vast wasteland of the Great Salt Lake. Fascinating footage outside of his downtown stinky adobe...this film hits the road in all it's disturbing glory. Highlights include Matthew's hilarious reaction to the hour long annoying tape loop prepared just for his honor and getting the privilege of ordering food for everyone at the local McDonald's drive thru.

Documentary about the Saltair resort near Salt Lake City, Utah, where the cult film "Carnival of Souls" was filmed in 1962.