14th Annual ASU Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival

Saturday, April 17, 2010 – 8 p.m. | Tempe campus | Free

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, 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, attendees 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.

In-kind Sponsors:
Big Ben – Jumbo Graphic Solutions
Star Video Duplicating

Thank you to all the outstanding artists who entered the 2010 Festival. The jury process included 497 entries from 39 States and 33 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.

Selected Films:

Getting Through Security
Stephanie Basco
Los Angeles, California
The ridiculous reality of getting through airport security.

The Job (*** LeBlanc Audience Choice Award)
Jonathan Browning
Los Angeles, California
The immigration debate just got a little funnier.

Threat
Robert Ladislas Derr
Columbus, Ohio
Presents the tautological relationship between the artist’s video camera and the x–ray machine, and highlights the political act of looking.

To Get to the Other Side
Ted Fisher
New York, New York
When the New York City Marathon closes down 1st Avenue, Manhattan’s privileged Upper East–Siders attempt to sneak by the Mayor’s entourage, past the police and through a parade of determined runners.

Phoenix: City of the Future
Robert Kilman & Safwat Saleem
Phoenix, Arizona
Barry Moon, once mildly famous for his work in 80s Australian soaps, struggles with a promotional film to attract creatives to the city of Phoenix, Arizona.

Bible Reader
Yuliya Lanina
Brooklyn, New York
Bible Reader is a stop motion animation in which a whimsical cast of characters originated in the artists paintings, act out various human behaviors.

cocker
Erik Levine
Long Island City, New York
Challenging the perception, meaning and definition of cultural masculinity and values as seen through the ritual, history, tradition and sport of cockfighting.

Take Your Picture with a Puma (* Juror Choice Award)
Jennifer Levonian
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
An American tourist on her quest for authentic experiences in Mexico, aided only by a Lonely Planet guidebook. 

Belt Buckle/ Quonset Hut
Terry Mialkowsky
Winnipeg, Canada
A picture and sound love poem to Saskatchewan, standing firm against the harsh prairie wind and sun, determined and proud – the belt buckle and the Quonset hut.

Out of Here
Chino Moya
London, England
After a dispute a young woman leaves her older boyfriend’s comfortable apartment. Having nowhere to go, she wanders the streets aimlessly, eventually ending up in a cafe where she has a random encounter.

Indian
Darryl Nepinak
Winnipeg, Canada
At the Canadian national Spelling Bee, speller Darryl Nepinak stumbles upon a familiar word.

Nino Balcon (Balcony Boy)
Pilar Palomero
Zaragoza, Spain
Balcony boy, poor balcony boy, this is the story of the Balcony Boy. His fault – having big ears. His bad habit – putting his head where he shouldn’t have.

Nijuman no borei (200,000 Phantoms) (* Juror Choice Award)
Jean-Gabriel Periot
Tours, France
Hiroshima 1914-2006

Horn Dog
Bill Plympton
New York, New York
A children’s fable about the power of advertising, the meaning of life and, ultimately, the test of a mother’s love.

Send Greener Grass Uphill (**AZ Award)
Saxon Richardson
Phoenix, Arizona
A short downhill skateboarding film, of the incondite longboarders.

A Falta de Pan
Martin Rosete
New York, New York
Two weird men duel each other for a dialectical argument.

Paper of Plastic
Martin Rosete
New York, New York
A young woman meets an old one in a supermarket; the encounter will mark her life forever.

Birthday No. 45: Monthly Expenses 4 November.xls
Margie Schnibbe
Los Angeles, California
Feeling overwhelmed by a massive amount of credit card and student loan debt, artist Margie Schnibbe creates a poetic self-portrait with a digital camera purchased for 32 dollars and 86 cents.

McDonough
Kyle Stephen
Savannah, Georgia
A Steampunk Stop Motion Musical.

Scrub
Andrew Takeuchi
Los Angeles, California
Scrub is a cipher, an artifact from the back pages of an imaginary magazine. Inspired in equal measure by Daniel Clowes, Elmer Batters and the countless ad spots in which the camera lingers lovingly on a product – I’m sure a therapist could run with this one, but it was easier just to put it on film.

Lost Pet
Doug Williams
Oakland, California
He has a black head and neck, white patches on the face and a brownish grey body.

Thank you to the following for their annual in-kind support of our festival:

Big Ben – Jumbo Graphic Solutions generously donated the screen and banners.


Star Video Duplicating generously donates DVD duplication services.



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