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 evening, individuals are asked to bring a lawn chair, blanket or anything else 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 2005 Festival. The jury process included 365 entries from 28 states and 14 nations.

JURY PROCESS IS COMPLETE AND THE WINNERS ARE...

* Juror Choice Awards, AZ Award noted below. LeBlanc Audience Choice Award will be announced online following the festival date.

Nelson: Rock and Roll Detectives JAY BARBA and BRIAN FARRELLY Astoria, New York Former MTV stars Matthew and Gunnar Nelson have opened up a detective agency in Los Angeles. They specialize in solving the toughest cases the entertainment industry has to offer - so look out criminals! You can run and you can hide, but you can't run and hide at the same time, because that's just physically impossible!
Le Vieil Homme et Les Poissons DAVID BOKSER West Hollywood, California Le Vieil Homme et Les Poissons is about an old man who longs to be a fish and constructs a fish suit to fulfill his dream.
Kollectables (*AZ Award) ALEX CALLEROS Chandler, Arizona This mock-umentary follows four eccentric high school collectors, all of who are competing in the first annual "Kute Kollectables Klub" competition. However, things take an unexpected turn when the judge shows up at the contest.
5:30 a.m. Taxi Rear View Mirror BILL CRESTON Greenwich Village, New York 5:30 a.m. Taxi Rear View Mirror, distorted voice-overs of two strangers who encounter each other early one Sunday morning.
Candide (*LeBlanc Audience Choice Award) JOHN DAVIS San Francisco, California Appropriated television images and music accompany excerpts from a sound effects CD, all seeking connections between American nationalism, television, and Voltaire's satire "Candide."
Norden/North BRITT DUNSE Berlin, Germany Norden/North isn't just a mere direction, it's a place where fantasy and dream melt together. Here we realize life's transitory nature and the desire each individual has for love and understanding.
Who's Your Daddy MATTHEW EHLERS Rochester, New York A mysterious lothario invades a small town, leaving a group of angry husbands in his wake.
BFF BENJAMIN ENTNER Syracuse, New York Explores the laughable nature of a television sitcom. Using an episode of Friends (the one with the free porn), Entner edits the sitcom down to the very meat of humor.
First Ladies NATALIE FRIGO Brooklyn, New York News footage that originally focused on presidents of the United States, turned to focus on the First Ladies. The hegemonic narrative bolstered by the news media is transferred to form a new account of history. By altering the composition of the film slightly in one direction, First Ladies addresses unnoticed public records, which are disregarded because of implicit cultural structures.
November 22, 1963 NATALIE FRIGO Brooklyn, New York An alteration of the Zapruder footage of the John F. Kennedy assassination with the removal of JFK from each frame. The film as originally shown was a defining collective moment presented by the news media; America's experience of this event was/is almost solely through television. The original version was corrupted before it was released to the public (frames missing or destroyed, parts of footage cropped). What did the un-tampered footage reveal? How did modifying the original footage adjust our experience, consciousness, and memory of the event? The manipulation of the footage changed not only the experience, but the assassination-in-itself is forever altered.
guitars and idiot sticks LOGAN HALL Tucson, Arizona A short documentary looks at a few musicians who have migrated to Tucson for the annual Old Time Fiddlers Festival.
Three Little Words BRET HAMPTON Valencia, California All he wanted was to tell her of the passion in his heart, the longing in his soul. That she was the one. Yet finding the perfect words didn't come as easily as he thought. But he didn't let that stop him. He was determined to get it right, whatever it took!
Learn Self Defense CHRIS HARDING Prairie Village, Kansas When George is brutally mugged in an alley, he decides he must learn to defend himself in this violent world. A cocksure narrator walks him through five lessons of self defense which strangely mirror recent approaches to American defense policy, and then turns him loose in the streets to wreak havoc.
Home Made DAVID LACHMAN North Adams, Massachusetts Home Made is the story of a man who takes things too literally. It starts with a pint of Ben and Jerry's ice cream and progresses from there.
Trina's Collections ELLEN LAKE Oakland, California This short documentary celebrates Trina Robbins (writer/producer of Go Girl! Comics) and her eclectic collections: girl action figures, super heroines, vintage aprons, rubber bath tub toys, saints, tikis, hawaiiana, and more.
Wolf SUZY MAIER Atlanta, Georgia Wolf is the story of a girl who gets lost outside herself and turns inward to daydream about a wolf as an attempt to discover. She tries to interact with people and events, but continues to find conflict with them. So she joins the "wolf pack" and painstakingly makes wrong decisions. She loses control and eventually starts to come to an understanding of herself instead.
Cats and Pants JENNIFER MATOTEK Oakville, Ontario, Canada Cats and pants. And cats and pants. And pants and cats, and cats and pants.
A Time To Speak CATHERINE MEIER Lincoln, Nebraska A Time To Speak touches directly upon two people who are affected by meth addiction and depicts how land and rural environment where they live is implicitly involved in the narrative. The land simultaneously effects and is affected by the dilemma the two people face.
My Trip To Liberty City (*Juror Choice Award and Audience Choice Honorable Mention) JIM MUNROE Toronto, Ontario, Canada A video travelogue of a Canadian tourist trying to stay out of trouble in the world of Grand Theft Auto III.  Design of canadiantourist.jpg is credited to Patricio Davila and the skin to Marc Ngui.
Sadako's Cranes YVETTE O'NEILL Longview, Washington It is the story of Sadako Sasaki who was three years old when the atom bomb was dropped on Hiroshima. As a result, Sadako contracted leukemia, known in Japan as the atom bomb disease. While in the hospital, hoping to be cured and to return to her family and friends, Sadako tried to fold one thousand origami paper cranes which, according to legend, would make one's wish come true.
Blue Rain HSIN-PING PAN Pasadena, California This is a story about a little brave spirit who saves a crying girl and a flooded city.
Art-rector Assembly Instructions (*Non-juried Selection) BOB PECE San Juan Capistrano, California A sculptor introduces a line of model kits of his artworks and in the process loses sight of the common good.
Pass the Ammunition (*Juror Choice Award) JOSEPH PERAGINE Atlanta, Georgia Set against the sound of a popular WWII anthem, Pass the Ammunition is a cartoon chronology of events of the war in Iraq from D-day to Abu Ghraib. Each small scene of the animation was created in response to a daily image or headline in a process that spanned many months. Each small scene is in a sense a diary entry. Later they were compiled into a narrative and set to music. The piece is meant to make one pause and consider the totality of events unfolding in the Middle East and not merely celebrate victory.
Shlitz and Giggles JOSHUA PRITZKER Los Angeles, California A PopOpera executed in three acts. Paperboy Billy dreams of being a Broadway musical star, but standing in his way is the evil Julian who will do anything to get the part.
The Fountain of Youth LUIS RAMOS Flushing, New York Many people today are searching for the fountain of youth — whatever it may be, such as in sports, job, movies, beauty. This short film will be inspirational for people who are told that they can't do things because of their age. Maybe this short film will stop age discrimination and will make believers out of all of us.
Family GEORGE WICHELNS Valencia, California A reflection on the interest in story telling and fairy tales.
Don't You Bring Me Down Today KEITH WILSON San Francisco, California Something happens when urban filmmakers are re-located to their native suburbs. In this case clothing is shed, and Christina Aguilera is channeled. Don't You Bring Me Down Today is inspired by the ever-expanding American suburbs and by Christina herself. Shot on location in and around Creekside Estates Subdivision, Don't will bring out the inner suburbanite residing in you.

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

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