SIXTH ANNUAL
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM
SHORT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
SATURDAY
APRIL 20, 2002 - 8:00 p.m.
TEMPE, ARIZONA
Come with your lawn chairs and blankets,
sit out under the stars and enjoy this free event...Organized and Juried for the Arizona State University Art
Museum by:
Bob Pece,
Southern California Filmmaker
John D. Spiak, Arizona State University
Art Museum
Arizona State University Art Museum is proud to present a number of short films
and videos by artists from around the world. For this one evening, individuals
are asked to bring a lawn chair, blanket or anything else they wish to use as
a seat and join us on the back
plaza for this FREE EVENT.
FESTIVAL PRESENTED IN VHS FORMAT
**Note below: For the second year in a row, special projects by 3rd grade
students at W.T. Machan Elementary School of Phoenix will be presented at our
festival. The projects are a collaboration between W.T. Machan Elementary School,
ASU Art Museum Education Department and local artist Tara Kozuback.
Annual Sponsors:
STAR VIDEO DUPLICATING
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Thank you to all the outstanding artists who entered the 2002 Festival.
The jury process included 341 entries from 26 States and 16 Nations.
JURY PROCESS IS COMPLETE AND THE WINNERS ARE...
*Juror Choice Awards, AZ Award noted below.
**LeBlanc Audience Choice Award will be announced on April 22.
Guerrilla Public Service
RICHARD ANKROM
Los Angeles, California
An artist disguised as a state employee takes a direct
approach to correcting guide signs on the California
freeway.
Welcome to Purgatory
JAY BARBA and BRIAN FARRELLY
Astoria, New York
Imagine all the deceased rock legends alive and well, and all
together in a junior high school sex education class being
taught by Frank Sinatra. That's just a typical morning in
Purgatory, a town whose inhabitants live their everyday
lives blissfully ignorant that, in our world, they are famous
dead celebrities.
Ka Ku Mei
JAMYLA and PIERRE BENNU
Astoria, New York
A revolution in a 3rd grade classroom.
Shortstop
JOEL PATRICK BERRY I
Orange, California
A hot new rap duo brings a whole new flavor to the
rap game with their chart topping single.
Juddi Racer
JAMES CHO
La Jolla, California
This short documentary is part of a trilogy about Asian
American residents of Las Vegas. The first segment of the
series, Juddi Racer, is a portrait of Juddi Lin. Through a
participatory editing process with Lin, this video shows a young
Asian American woman who is immersed in the local auto racing scene.
For the illegal racers, their goal is not to claim an identity for a
specific location, but rather to constantly roam and identify through
the vehicle. The customized Asian car is a catalyst for interaction,
dialog, and incidental performance.
Road Map (*juror choice award)
LIN E. DE MOL
Amsterdam
The longing for freedom, the search for love, and the rush for
relief are the themes for Road Map, the report of a travel
through Arizona. Reality and fiction become entangled as the
documentary images of the trip intertwine with the imaginary
journey that takes place in the inner life of the protagonist.
Following An Orange
FELIPE DULZAIDES
San Francisco, California
The title says it all, so lets follow an orange.
Line Up
JULIE-CHRISTINE FORTIER
Montreal, Canada
Fire!
Great Balls of Fire (*juror choice award)
LEON GRODSKI and PEARL GLUCK
New York, New York
Toothless, shirtless, in song and spit, a man speaks out like
the barometer of the times about the World Trade Center tragedy.
The Load
HEIDI KUMAO
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Stop-action animation about a woman who carries all of her
life's belongings with her, reaches a cliff's edge, and must
decide what to do.
Jack Signs
GORDY HOFFMAN
Hollywood, California
Jack Sings is an actor who is known by his fans as someone
who will sign autographs. The hungry crowd is not satisfied
until everyone gets everything they want.
Drive-In Chapel
AL LEIBMAN (*az award)
Tucson, Arizona
Drive-In Chapel is a quick sketch of Americana in Tucson,
Arizona. An example of ingenuity, the chapel offers its
congregation the opportunity to combine three American
institutions - church, cars and dogs - into one charming
affectionate service.
Mariposa Canyon
BENJAMIN DANIEL LOBATO
Tucson, Arizona
Saddened over his mother's recent death, a young man ventures
to the mystical Mariposa canyon, where the ghosts of his past
force him to reflect upon his youth in order to release his
mother's spirit.
Untitled
NICK LONGWORTH
Phoenix, Arizona
Untitled is a work about someone caught in the routine of
an addiction.
I Was A Strip Club Virgin
RACHEL MAX
Washington, D.C.
A young woman is introduced to the sordid world of greased up
men and crinkled dollar bills.
My Father's Lunch
TONY MENDOZA
Columbus, Ohio
My father has eaten lunch every day at the same restaurant for
30 years. His routine was amusing and I decided to go along
with a video camera, on a day when something unexpected occurred.
Cow
MARK MORRIS
New Orleans, Louisiana
A reworking of the ancient adage...about control of the mind.
Theremin: Out of the Ether
BRIAN OAKES
Los Angeles, California
Based on a true story, Theremin: Out of the Ether interprets
the tragic incarceration of Russian musician and inventor
Leon Theremin (1896-1993).
Passion Fruit
JACK SEKOWSKI
Sherman Oaks, California
A lazy afternoon in the park. A Man. A Woman. A bunch of
juicy, ripe fruit. All the ingredients for a flirtation.
What could go wrong?
10 Speed
ETHAN SHAFTEL
Los Angeles, California
10 Speed follows a young bike rider as he dares to oppose the
oppressive student officer on campus.
Still I Rise
UMESH SHUKLA
Los Angeles, California
Still I Rise attempts to depict the last dream Joseph Merrick,
known as the Elephant Man, might have had as he breathed his
last breath. Tired of sleeping in a seated position with his
head on his knees, he took a mortal risk and layed flat on his
bed. This suffocated him and ended his life in April of 1890.
Peggy Love: One-Oh-One
SUZIE SILVER
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Love is an obsession. Pop culture is filled with love songs.
What can the musical expression of the word "love" mean? Here,
one of the great pop vocalists of the twentieth century, Peggy
Lee, sings us some clues.
Jack Diane
WENDY WILKINS
Los Angeles, California
Jack & Diane is the all-American story of a boy breaking
up with a girl told through fifty-seven different song lyrics.
Hardhead Flair
ERIKA YEOMANS
Los Angeles, California
A spooky little narrative gone awry... contains all the de
rigueur 70s pop references - an ELO Bee Gees beat, Harlequin
Romance, Deliverance, the moist advertising of Maybelline and
Sassoon jeans - all wrapped up pretty.
Past The Hat: Ademas Del Gorro
MS. ELANDER’S 3rd GRADE CLASS
W.T. MACHAN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Pheonix, Arizona
The third grade students in Lori Elander's Dual Language
classroom at William T. Machan Elementary explore who
they are through poetry, art and symbols.
Past The Hat: Ademas Del Gorro was created through a
special program organized by the ASU Art Museum Education
Department and W.T. Machan Elementary School of Phoenix.
With pride we present, for a second year in a row, a work
created by W.T. Machan Elementary School 3rd grade classes.
The work was developed by the students with assistance from
Ms. Lori Elander (W.T. Machan Elementary), Michelle Dock
(ASU Art Museum), Marissa Filippo(ASU Art Museum) and
Tara Kozuback (Local Artist).
THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR ANNUAL SUPPORT
OF OUR FESTIVAL:
Star Video Duplicating generously
donates duplication services.
Tempe Camera for their generous
donation of a screen for the festival.
The Institute for Studies in the Arts and Patricia Clark for their annual support.
Visit the ASUAM Festival Main Page for guidelines for next years festival and a history of this annual event.
For a list of national and international festivals, visit The Danish Video Art Data Bankor UNXposed, good pages for festivals on the internet.
Take a peek at Film Threat and ShortFilmChannel.Com, they're great pages for filmmaker's looking to get their work shown.