Annual Short Film and Video Festival
Thirteenth Annual
ASU Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival
Saturday, April 18, 2009 - 8 p.m.
Tempe, Ariz.
Organized and Juried for the Arizona State University Art Museum by:
Bob Pece, Southern California Filmmaker
John D. Spiak, Curator, 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. Viewer discretion is recommended for attendees under age 17. Video content during the second half of the event may be inappropriate for younger audiences.
Thank you to all the outstanding artists who entered the 2009 Festival. The jury process included 405 entries from 35 States and 27 Nations.
Selected Films:
Life on a Limb (***Audience Choice Award)
David Chai
San Jose, Calif.
Irreconcilable enemies, a tree and a lumberjack, are stuck in a waiting room together. Inevitably, conflict ensues. Will they end up burying the hatchet, or will they end up burying the hatchet?
Empty House
Sean Christensen
Phoenix, Ariz.
A family's disintegration is told through the perspective of the house and furniture that they used to own.
Fan Mail (**AZ Award)
Sean Christensen
Phoenix, Ariz.
Based on a true story, one ardent fan writes his first and last fan letter to one of his favorite celebrities.
Dirty Words: The Letter C
T. Arthur Cottam
Burbank, Calif.
C is for coitus. C is for camel toe. C is for words they don't teach in school.
Das Gesicht
Stefan Elsenbruch and Raphael Wallner
Oberpframmern, Germany
A movie about the pain of a displaced ego and the sensation of real self-awareness.
A movie without cut, full of private moments of a person in a face-to-face situation.
12th & 3rd in Brooklyn
Ted Fisher
New York, N.Y.
A portrait of "Brooklyn's Best" playing their once-a-year stickball match on the same street they played as children.
Ketten Reaktion
Susanne Hassepaβ
Berlin, Germany
Two's a company, three's a crowd. And four. And five. The 6th is not. The 7th is again. A short about the little things that make for the big difference. And a proof that eventually everything returns to its beginning.
And Everything Was Alright
Robert Kilman and Safwat Saleem
Phoenix, Ariz.
A short film about a day in the life of a lonely bear who wants to travel to space.
Bea Johnson
Brett Leigh
Rumford, R.I.
A T.V. reporter struggles as he tries to report the weather for channel 4 News. All caught on tape.
Someone hears a shot.
Erik Levine
Long Island City, N.Y.
Amplifying the link between the hunter and hunted as seen through the overlapping stories of a singular life, Someone hears a shot. is a large-scale single-channel video projection using news reports of my father's murder, audio interviews with the detectives working on the case, and original film footage from an African safari he took in 1971.
Sweet Clover
Stephanie Lucas
Phoenix, Ariz.
A heartrending tale of one man's losses, Sweet Clover's soliloquy unfolds in fragments, revealing its tragic story through quiet portraits and moments of ephemera
Midnight Solo
Alex Merrill
Goodyear, Ariz.
"...You are the music while the music lasts."
– T.S. Eliot
Training Videos - Hole
Joseph Mougel
Sarasota, Fla.
Dressed in Marine regalia, Mougel produces alternative training videos of these eerie, yet humorous metaphorical scenarios. In this video, he creates humorous overtones through the spectacle of popping out of a perfectly cut hole in the ground.
Training Videos - Up Down
Joseph Mougel
Sarasota, Fla.
Dressed in Marine regalia, Mougel produces alternative training videos of these eerie, yet humorous metaphorical scenarios. In this video, he creates humorous overtones through the spectacle of multiple attempts to take a hill.
Santa: The Fascist Years (*Juror Choice Award)
Bill Plympton
New York, N.Y.
We all think of Santa as "Jolly Ol' St. Nick," but who knew that he has a dark hidden past that's very un-jolly? This short film uncovers and explores Santa's flirtation with politics and greed.
Chained Elephant
Lorena Rother
Savannah, Ga.
How can it be possible that a big and powerful animal like an elephant cannot escape from the circus captivity?
Welcome to Shady Pines
V. K. Shah
Venice, Calif.
Welcome to Shady Pines stars Estelle Getty, an overzealous real estate agent who will do anything to sell you a home, and her quest to be Realtor of the Year.
Cos + Effect
Kon Stamadianos
Tempe, Ariz.
The hottest human-and-electronic-device duo in hip-hop perform live at the dumpster behind the supermarket.
The Pain with Being Thirsty (*Juror Choice Award)
David Yun
San Francisco, Calif.
A film that juxtaposes found footage of Japanese Internment camps in Arizona with a found letter written by a Muslim prisoner accused of running Al-Qaeda Web sites who has been imprisoned since 2004 with no trial. In linking the two, the film traces a connection between the way Japanese Americans were perceived during World War II and how Muslims in the U.S. and abroad are being treated in a post-9/11 world while raising larger questions about the fragility of our own freedoms.
Thank you to the following for their annual in-kind support of our festival:
Star Video Duplicating generously donates DVD duplication services.
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