11th ANNUAL ASU ART MUSEUM at Arizona State University
SHORT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL

ASU Art Museum at Arizona State University is proud to present a number of short films and videos by artists from around the world.

SATURDAY, APRIL 14, 2007 - 8 p.m.

Organized and juried for the ASU Art Museum by:
Bob Pece, Southern California Filmmaker
John D. Spiak, Curator, ASU Art Museum

Sponsors:
STAR VIDEO DUPLICATING
TEMPE CAMERA

Thanks to all the outstanding artists who entered the 11th Annual ASU Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival. The jury process included 333 entries from 29 states and 22 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.  

Book
MARTA DAEUBLE
Reading, United Kingdom
This stop-motion animation unravels the mysteries of the written page when a book is brought to life only to reveal the everlasting search for love and self-identity.

Oøp Fiøri os Khänk
JAMES DINGLE
Dorchester, Massachusetts
Oørt Ul $1,000 $0.55 (3) (Nabisco Chips Ahoy!) Cookies (snack)
Oørt Ul $2,000 $13.26 (2) (Citrucel) Fiber Shake (powder)
Khänk $4,000 $2.69 (1) (Baker’s Joy) Cooking Spray (formula)

Knock Knock
JESSE GALOFARO
Melbourne, Australia
Two guys approach an apartment door, ready to take care of business. They knock on the door and wait…

30 Ways to Walk
JEFF GILL
Savannah, Georgia
A man walks on a treadmill while experimental animations transform his surrounding environment.

Carlin (**Honorable Mention, LeBlanc Audience Choice Award)
BRENT GREEN
Cressona, Pennsylvania
Carlin was filmed, with life-sized wooden characters and taxidermy chickens, in the farmhouse where Green grew up.  It's the story of his Aunt Carlin moving in there with his family when he was a kid so she could die. 

Hadacol Christmas
BRENT GREEN
Cressona, Pennsylvania
Hadacol Christmas is about Green’s grandfather, Garland, as Santa Claus, inventing Christmas with a belly full of cough syrup and a head full of dying crows.

Lincoln
BRENT GREEN
Cressona, Pennsylvania
A short portrait of Lincoln with the ghosts of his family around him and the weight of the Civil War dead twisting and swirling in his head.

[Desi’re] The Goldstein Reels (*Juror Choice Award)
ROMEO GRÜNFELDER
Hamburg, Germany
An old celluloid film is labeled as being from the estate of Jack Goldstein. The unusual S8 footage is nevertheless difficult to interpret. Due to partially missing data; place, time and author cannot be determined and keep the viewer in the dark. An ongoing investigation has not been able to produce a reasonable explanation of the film’s circumstances.

Loom
SCOTT KRAVITZ
San Francisco, California
A street musician risks his life to save a child and meets his fate at the hands of an old woman who is more than she seems.

The Pit and the Pendulum
MARC LOUGEE
Toronto, Canada
The Pit and the Pendulum rediscovers this tale of judgment, condemnation, despair, hope and eventual redemption.

Beautiful
RYAN McCULLOCH
Cobb, California
Ryan McCulloch puts his own unique twist on "beauty is only skin deep" in this clay animation shot on 8mm film.

Kemosabe Version 1.0
TORRY MENDOZA
Syracuse, New York
Kemosabe Version 1.0 utilizes deconstruction to examine and comment on two American icons, The Lone Ranger and his faithful sidekick, Tonto, through re-assemblage. The montage illustrates how American media, intentionally or not, did and does negatively and inaccurately portray Native Americans, whereas the subtext illustrates how The Lone Ranger subjugated Tonto as he consumes and assumes Tonto's "Indian-ness". 

Twitch
LEAH MEYERHOFF
Brooklyn, New York
Nominated for a Student Academy Award, Twitch portrays a young girl's irrational fear that her mother's disability is contagious. Her boyfriend, oblivious to her increasing hypochondria, only seems interested in her physically. Ultimately, she must learn to confront her fears and take care of herself.

Relocation (*AZ Award)
DONOVAN MONTIERTH
Mesa, Arizona
There is one division in the witness protection program that is not successful…the Clown Division.

Solomon Grundy
CHRIS MYERS
Savannah, Georgia
Solomon Grundy’s life is a series of whirlwind ceremonies and rituals over which he has no control.

A Trip to Prague
NEIL IRA NEEDLEMAN
Katonah, New York
There aren’t enough happy endings in the world, so I decided to create my own.

Delivery (*Juror Choice Award) (**Honorable Mention, LeBlanc Audience
Choice Award)
TILL NOWAK
Mainz, Germany
An old man lives a lonely life under the dark shadows of industrial smog.  One day he receives a mysterious package that gives him the ability to change his environment.

Combustible Russ
ALECIA ORSINI
Savannah, Georgia
Russ can't get a break. Since birth, when his sister molded his head into a cone, his life has been nothing but a long string of bullies, disappointed lovers and communist hit men. What's a guy to do?

Rising Water
JOSEPH PERAGINE
Atlanta, Georgia
A digital animation that tackles the somber subjects of Hurricane Katrina and the Iraq war, presented with the disarming innocence of children’s cartoons.

Untitled Number One
CRUZ PEREZ
Peoria, Arizona
Created as part of the Art InterAct: Communities High School Video Project, an outreach program of the ASU Art Museum’s New American City exhibition, Untitled Number One is a cynical outlook of human nature and the existence of mankind.  The work was selected by the audience at the high school awards evening on Feb. 27 as Best in Show to be screened at this festival.  

Guide Dog (**LeBlanc Audience Choice Award)
BILL PLYMPTON
New York, New York
Guide Dog is a sequel to the Oscar-nominated short, Guard Dog. This
time our hero dog helps blind people with typical disastrous results.

Bottleneck
ANDREW SHIPSIDE
Savannah, Georgia
Driven by an unquenchable thirst, a young man stumbles through his dreams in a quest to find water. The labyrinth of his own mind is ruled by an inner demon that stops him at every turn. He must identify his true desire if he is to escape.

Irks
PRESTON SPURLOCK
New York, New York
A small blobby animal eludes predators across a landscape of other small blobby animals.

Motion Portrait
JOHN YOST
Lake George, New York
An intimate look at a cross-section of today’s people as the camera captures how people see themselves.

THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR ANNUAL SUPPORT OF OUR FESTIVAL:


Star Video Duplicating for generously donating duplication services.


Tempe Camera for their generous donation of a screen for the festival.




Visit the ASU Art Museum Film Festival main page for guidelines for next year’s festival and a history of this annual event.

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