As the Sundance Film Festival kicked off virtually amid the novel coronavirus pandemic, founder Robert Redford made a brief appearance during the opening night welcome ceremony from Park City, Utah.
Redford, who skipped for the second year running the opening press conference earlier in the day, was not personally featured on screen.
Instead, the Hollywood director narrated a short visual tone poem about Utah that featured shots of space-pointing telescopes in the Atacama desert that Redford used as metaphors for artists telling stories amid the COVID-19 crisis. "Every artist holds a mirror to their piece of the universe, to make the hidden visible, the unknown familiar.
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