SECOND
ANNUAL
ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM
SHORT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
Dedicated to the memory of
STEPHEN M. LeBLANC
Museum Security Officer/ASU Student
Stephen helped to get this festival off the ground in 1997.
Without his help and support, this annual festival would not be possible.
Individuals came with lawn chairs and blankets, sat out under the stars and enjoyed 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
1998 Press Release: Arizona State University Art Museum was proud to present a number of short films & videos by artists from around the world. For this one evening, individuals were asked to bring a lawn chair, blanket or anything else they wished to use as a seat and join us on the back plaza for this FREE EVENT.
Louella Harris graciously donated her time so refreshments could be purchased throughout our program from the Sweet Lou Hot Dogs cart.
Sponsors:
STAR VIDEO DUPLICATING -http://www.starvideo.com
TEMPE CAMERA - http://www.tempecamera.com
AND THE WINNERS ARE...
Thank you to all the outstanding artists who entered the 1998 Festival.
The jury process included 215 entries from 21 States and nine Nations (click here for a breakdown of entires by State and Country); 31 works by 30 artists were chosen.
*Juror Choice and LeBlanc Audience Choice Award are noted next to selections.
Due to a tie in the voting, we have named two LeBlanc Audience Choice Award winners. We have also named a LeBlanc Audience Choice Award, Honorable Mention for the only work that received numerous and wonderful written comments on a majority of the ballots and just missed being in the tie for first place.
The Festival was presented in VHS format.
TEXT VERSION
IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER...
(Click on name and title for more information about the artist and their work.)
BILL ALVES - Hiway
70
Computer animation inspired by long night drives on lonely Texas highways.
DANIEL ARKIN, KURT RAMSCHISSEL,
OSCAR TROLYN - Odd Star Wars Couple
What if TV's Odd Couple merged with Star Wars?
HITOMI ASAHI - untitled
(a message)
* JUROR CHOICE AWARD
there is always shadow where light exists...there are always people who live
in the shadow where a shiny world exists...when you are in the shadow you
only see the darkness...but remember, where shadow exists there must be always
light from somewhere...look underneath the door, can you see the dim light?...maybe
there are some bad things outside...maybe nothing is waiting for you...but
the sky...is always there (mm...outside is not too bad then)...telling you
that everything will be all right...the little, dim light underneath the door...is
a letter from the sky
WILLIAM AZAROFF - Checkmating
The story of a woman who tests her dates by playing games of chess with them.
Each game takes on the mood of the relationship, revealing the different emotions
that accompany the rituals of dating.
MIKE BALLOU - Let
Them Do It
About being something and doing something.
MARK EDGINGTON -
anna in the sky
* LeBLANC AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
Justin turns to the dark arts to win back the fickle Anna.
JOHN
W. FESKIN - Home
The tale of a young man's journey into his afterlife. It is here Etan, the
main character, must once again face the tragedies he had left behind in his
human existence.
DAVID GLASSMAN, JOSEPH
DUNN - DLBWA
A reformed serial killer returns to the town where he committed his crime
only to find the town mad at him, not for the crimes, but for turning himself
in and them losing out on the Hollywood deals.
HY¨NZEL & GRETZEL - Genocides
Beyond an ethnic conflict in Rwanda and Burundi ending in a genocide, how
do Western viewers perceive the massacres, the instant non-/dis-information,
the involvement of the Western powers? What are the meaning and value of these
bloody images between commercials, clichÈs and voyeuristic newsmania? Abandon,
pity, humanitarian neo-colonialism, collective guilt, personal responsibilities,
crimes and punishments... is Death just another videoclip? A "neverending"
story.
ROGER HOLDEN, ANDY LEONTOVICH,
DRAKE VAN PRAAG - The Buena Vista Ferry
A journey on the Buena Vista Ferry in Buena Vista, Oregon.
FRANKLIN JOYCE - ..and
the universe expands from bang
A retrospective of 1950's space mania - the era when space became the stage
for giving birth to a new nation.
ALIX
STEWART LAMBERT - Platipussy: The Trailer
A pseudo-documentary which follows the rise and demise of a riot grrrrl band.
photo credit: Carl Saytor
RYAN MCCULLOCH -
Without You* LeBLANC AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD, HONORABLE MENTION
15-year-old Ryan McCulloch, 14, when he completed this work last November, molds clay and portrays the joy and heartache of missing a loved one. He attempts to bring life to his original clay figures and to elicit an emotional response from his audience using only an ancient, low-tech video camera, a garage sale doll house and $7 worth of clay (and without the benefit of digital morphing editing equipment).
MATT MARELLO - SitcomsThe Beverly Hillbillies with a special guest star.
MAGGIE MILLER - Soup
is Good Food"Soup is Good Food" appears to be a parody on the way mainstream commercial advertising misrepresents the ideal of the American family. But on a closer look, "Soup is Good Food" preys on the Oedipal Triangle that haunts the dynamics of "The Family".
MATTHEW
G. MOCARSKI - Citizen KongComputer animation that mixes Citizen Kane with King Kong.
KYOUNG HEE OH - Songbird* JUROR & LeBLANC AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD
A computer-generated, experimental short, which is made of still photography, is a fairy tale for adults. A story of a man and his loneliness. Should it be a love story? It all happens in a surrealistic island where quite extraordinary things can happen.
PHILIP SCARBOROUGH
- The LightWe all have dragons we run from or run after. We all have a divine light we chase. You can't run from yourself. And the light we all chase, we possess already.
CHRIS SHERIDAN - Walk
This WayA plane crash...a wheelchair...and a lot of laughs!
PAULA TIBERIUS - BUSK"Life is hard when you live on Gerrard...," especially when you're a white French-Canadian rapper trying to make it on the streets of Toronto. BUSK is a fish out of water comedy about a guy who doesn't give up, even when his whole 'hood is against him.
JIM TOROK - PaintA low-tech animation about a painter and his desires.
PAUL
WILSON - 50's T.V. As I Woulda Had It...A celebration of a few old t.v. ads, as Paul would interpret them if he had control over what aired in, say, 1957.
ALAN WINSTON - The
Bounty HuntersStop-motion animated action figures do battle. In this installment, the heroes find themselves in a messy dorm room infested with bounty hunters. Leia is captured by Boba Fett, and while Han and Chewie attempt to rescue her, Luke faces his destiny alone.
BEN WOLF - Once AgainA Harlem resident gets a rare second chance to cheat his fate: death as an innocent bystander in a botched robbery.
THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR SUPPORT OF OUR FESTIVAL:
Star Video Duplicating generously donated duplication services so tapes could be sent to critics and artists in the festival.
http://www.starvideo.com
Tempe Camera for their generous donation of a screen for the festival.
http://www.tempecamera.com
Patricia Clark, Co-manager and Artist/Technologist at
The Institute for Studies in the Arts, for her support of the festival.
Louella Harris donated her time so refreshments could be purchased
throughout our program from the Sweet Lou's Hot Dog cart.
Questions? E-mail John D. Spiak or call him at 480.965.2787.
The absolute best source for avant garde film and video is presented by Scott Stark. Visit his Flicker Page or sign-up for his e-mail newletter by contacting him at sstark@sirius.com.
For a list of national and international festivals, visit The Danish Video Art Data Bank
or UNXposed, good pages for festivals on the internet.
Take a peek at Film Threat and ShortFilmChannel.Com. They're great pages for filmmakers looking to get their work shown.
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