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

Sponsors:
STAR VIDEO DUPLICATING
TEMPE CAMERA
INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THE ARTS

Thank you to all the outstanding artists who entered the 2004 Festival. The jury process included 322 entries from 27 States and 21 Nations.

JURY PROCESS IS COMPLETE AND THE WINNERS ARE...

*Juror Choice Awards, AZ Award, LeBlanc Audience Choice Award noted below.

84715 GUILLERMO CARBONELL Montevideo, Uruguay A man sees on his dreams a five-digit number. When he wakes up, the number starts to appear in various elements of his everyday life. Coincidence or a signal?
Paper Insect ALISON DAVIS Montreal, Canada A creature's obsession with collecting insects reaches its pinnacle when he captures a giant dragonfly, but his new acquisition could threaten the entire collection.
Vanity (*Juror Choice Award) JEREMY DEAN St. Augustine, Florida Through the eyes of a man raking flowers, Vanity explores the balance between the need to work for survival, while becoming lost in the mundane grind of daily life. Asking the question - how much of our time is spent on personal vanity?
Downhome Cookin' PETER ENNS Greenbelt, Maryland A hungry hillbilly prepares a special dish by following his family's favorite recipe: roadkill raccoon.
Homeland Security RICKY FAUST Phoenix, Arizona A short story of a man so entrapped by the paranoia and fear of his "post-September 11 world" that he bars himself inside his home.
garpenfargle (*AZ Award and Audience Choice Honorable Mention) EDWARD KIM and BILL KERSEY Tucson, Arizona The master of the house is leaving and young Hobbes is left alone, unable to follow the rules the master expected of him. Everything was just garpenfargle.
There Was A Man And He Was Mad BENJAMIN B. KINSLEY Granville, Ohio A cut-out animation set to a traditional children's folk sing-along song. It is a nonsensical story where an old man, controlled by a choir of children, is forced to endure a number of nonsensical activities.
Better Life ATSUKO KUBOTA Los Angeles, California The banal days go by without you realizing it. Vividly colored watercolor integrated with 3D computer animation presents the details of a somewhat unremarkable normal life to question beauties in common things.
La Brea (*Juror Choice Award) GABRIEL LICHSTEIN Los Angeles, California On his last nigh in Los Angeles ­ desperate to escape his overly helpful friends ­ the more Scott struggles the more trapped he becomes.
Hello (*LeBlanc Audience Choice Award) JONATHAN NIX Sydney, Australia A lovesick loner struggles to find the right words.
Articulate Citrus DEVIN NORDMEYER Phoenix, Arizona A man finds a talking orange in his refrigerator.
Teddy Huggsbeary BRIAN OAKES Providence, Rhode Island Lonely, little Amanda wishes her Teddy Bear would come to life and be her friend. A magical flying gnome appears and grants her wish.
Johnny Dullstar BOB PARIS Richmond, Virginia A grim look at the myth of Hollywood, Johnny Dullstar is an experimental documentary portrait of the one-legged man who shines the stars along Hollywood Boulevard.
My Favorite Things BOB PARIS Richmond, Virginia The warm and comforting tones of a classic song merge with surreal animation from TV news' war coverage in this disturbing meditation of America's distant war in Iraq.
War is Hell BOB PARIS Richmond, Virginia Life in American during wartime isn't easy. Fortunately, there are people on TV who can help.
Skip ANN STEUERNAGEL Cambridge, Massachusetts Ship is composed of found footage of children attempting to overcome an array of physical obstacles and is inspired, in part, by Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room.
Inventing: Music MATT STRATTON and DALLAS TRINKLE Chicago, Illinois Bill Henderson lives his dreams on the edge of society. When he's not riding his hog, he's playing his music to the only people that can truly understand an outlaw. A story about how the way in which we view ourselves rearranges the way we see and remember the world.
Untitled Book Series MICHAEL TRIGILIO Oakland, California Untitled Book Series explores our cultural infatuation with popular media, anxiety, and narcissism. Much of the work seeks to deconstruct the nature of obsession, both personal and political.

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.

THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF OUR FESTIVAL:
STAR VIDEO DUPLICATING
TEMPE CAMERA REPAIR
INSTITUTE FOR STUDIES IN THE ARTS

Visit the ASUAM Festival Main Page for guidelines for next year’s festival and a history of this annual event.

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