1998 ASU ART MUSEUM
SHORT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
Organized and Juried by:Bob Pece, Southern California Filmmaker
John D. Spiak, Arizona State University Art Museum
Thank you to the following:
STAR VIDEO DUPLICATING, TEMPE CAMERA, LOUELLA HARRIS, PATRICIA CLARK, JEAN MAKIN, AND THE 215 ARTISTS WHO ENTERED THIS YEARS FESTIVAL
Special Thanks to:
BOB PECE FOR HELPING THE ASU ART MUSEUM PRESENT THIS FESTIVAL FOR A SECOND YEAR AND THE 29 ARTISTS WHO ARE PART OF THIS YEARS FESTIVAL.
THE 1998 FESTIVAL AND AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD ARE DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF STEPHEN M. LeBLANC.
THE PROGRAM & MORE DETAILED INFORMATION
JIM TOROKPaint (2:43)
A low-tech animation about a painter and his desires.
*Arizona Premiere. Included in the WhimSiecle collection that premiered at 4 Walls, New York and toured internationally.
WILLIAM AZAROFF
Checkmating (6:36)
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.
*Arizona Premiere. Screened at the following festivals: Boston Film Festival, Northwest Film and Video Festival (Audience Choice Award), The San Jose Film Festival, Cinecenta in Victoria, Taos Talking Pictures, Filmfest DC, and IndieQueens Showcase.
DANIEL ARKIN, KURT RAMSCHISSEL, OSCAR TROLYN
Odd Star Wars Couple (2:17)
What if TV's Odd Couple merged with Star Wars?
*Arizona Premiere. We located these guys after reading about them on the FilmThreat E-Newsletter
MATT MARELLO
Sitcoms (2:27)
The Beverly Hillbillies with a special guest star.
*Arizona Premiere. Matt is an outstanding artist who also puts together group exhibitions of video and film that tour internationally. His exhibitions, such as "WhimSiecle" and "Whadareyanutz" have exhibited at 4 Walls and Knitting Factory in New York and the Peggy Guggenheim in Venice, Italy.
PAULA TIBERIUS
BUSK (6:27)
"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.
*Arizona Premiere. Premiered at The New Frontiers Film Festival. Paula was born in Los Angeles and now lives in Toronto.
RYAN McCULLOCH**LeBLANC AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD, HONORABLE MENTION**
Without You (3:20)
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 clay figures and to elicit and emotional response from his audience using only an ancient, low-tech video camera, a garage sale doll house and $7.00 worth of clay (and without the benefit of digital morphing editing equipment).
*Arizona Premiere. Ryan is a 9th grader at Will C. Wood High School in Vacaville, CA. This project was done on his own and was not part of a school project. He has made several stop-action clay animations and also enjoys working with real live actors. He plans on making a career in the arts.
CLICK HERE for a video clip from Without You.
JOHN FESKIN
Home (5:49)
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.
*Arizona Premiere.
MIKE BALLOU
Let Them Do It (3:25)
About being something and doing something.
*Arizona Premiere. Included in the WhimSiecle collection that premiered at 4 Walls, New York and toured internationally.
DAVID GLASSMAN, JOSEPH DUNN
DLBWA (8:42)
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.
*David and Joseph are both Valley residents. Premiered at the Cinema Shorts Festival , Flagstaff, Arizona.
HÄNZEL & GRETZEL
Genocides (2:50)
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, clichés and voyeuristic newsmania? Abandon, pity, humanitarian neo-colonialism, collective guilt, personal responsibilities, crimes and punishments... is Death just another videoclip? A "neverending" story.
*Arizona Premiere. The video, films and installations of HÄNZEL & GRETZEL have shown at the Pompidou and Modern Art Museum of Paris, the Film Anthology Museum in New York, the Cartier Foundation and are regularly selected for international video and film festivals. An entry from France sent to us by the Belgium Gallery, Damasquine. The gallery is actively promoting video art at events such as Gramercy.
MARK EDGINGTON**LeBLANC AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD**
Anna in the Sky (10:20)
Justin turns to the dark arts to win back the fickle Anna.
*Missed being the Arizona Premiere by two days. World Premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Has been screened at over 25 international festival's including: Bermuda International Film Festival (Best Short), Albuquerque Short Film Festival (Grand Prize and Audience Award), Charlotte Film and Video Festival (Juror's Choice Award), New York Expo of Short Film and Video (Jury Award), Seattle International Film Festival (Runner-up Best Short), to name just a few.
PAUL WILSON
50's T.V. As I Woulda Had It (Barbie)... (:41)
A celebration of a few old t.v. ads, as Paul would interpret them if he had control over what aired in, say, 1957.
*An Arizona favorite. Paul is a film and video icon in the Valley of the Sun.
BOB PECE
Conserve, Recycle, Reuse (:30)
A non-juried public service announcement by one of the co-organizers of the festival.
*Arizona Premiere. Bob was part of last years festival with the entries Fossils 'n Stuff and The Legend Unlikely.
CHRIS SHERIDAN
Walk This Way (12:07)
A plane crash...a wheelchair...and a lot of laughs!
*Walk This Way originally screened at the ASU Art Museum as Chris' honors thesis in October 1996. Since then it has screened at several festivals, winning awards including the 1997 Student Academy Award for Best Documentary. The ASU Art Museum is pleased to bring Walk This Way full circle by presenting it at this years festival.
INTERMISSION (10:00) - Refreshments available for purchase from Sweet Lou's Hot Dog Cart.
MATTHEW G. MOCARSKI
Citizen Kong (:57)
Computer animation that mixes Citizen Kane with King Kong.
*Matthew is a resident of the Valley. Citizen Kong was a student project from The Art Institute of Phoenix.
FRANKLIN JOYCE
..and the universe expands from bang (4:12)
A retrospective of 1950's space mania - the era when space became the stage for giving birth to a new nation.
*Arizona Premiere. Premiered at Planet Stiff, Seattle, Washington. Screened at the following: Northwest Film & Video Festival, Northwestern Exposure, Blackchair Productions, and 911 Media Art Center's Evening of Film and Video Art. Franklin Joyce was the recipient of Henry Art Museum & 911 Media Art Center's Digital Artist Residency.
PAUL WILSON
50's T.V. As I Woulda Had It (Mystery Date)... (1:00)
A celebration of a few old t.v.ads, as Paul would interpret them if he had control over what aired in, say, 1957.
*See Paul's previous entry above.
HITOMI ASAHI **JUROR CHOICE AWARD**
Untitled (a message) (7:20)
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.
*Arizona Premiere. Hitomi is an undergraduate in the School of Art at Arizona State University.
MIKE BALLOU
It's For You (3:52)
Sharing can help to support a friend.
*Arizona Premiere. Included in the WhimSiecle collection that premiered at 4 Walls, New York and toured internationally.
BEN WOLF
Once Again (7:58)
A Harlem resident gets a rare second chance to cheat his fate: death as an innocent bystander in a botched robbery.
*Has been screened at over 22 international festival's including: Arizona Cinema Shorts Festival (Best Student Work), Utah Short Film & Video Festival (Best Video Narrative), Black Maria Film and Video Festival (Juror's Citation Award), Big Muddy Film Festival ( Special Jury Honorable Mention), World Wide Film and Video Festival, Berlin, Los Angeles Short Film Festival, to name just a few.
PAUL WILSON
50's T.V. As I Woulda Had It (Q-Tips)... (1:00)
A celebration of a few old t.v.ads, as Paul would interpret them if he had control over what aired in, say, 1957.
*See Paul's previous entry above.
ALAN WINSTON
The Bounty Hunters (5:35)
Stop-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.
*Arizona Premiere. Aired on Delusions of Grandeur and Northwest Morose. Produced by Bravado Entertainment at Oregon State University.
MAGGIE MILLER
Soup is Good Food (2:29)
"Soup is Good Food" appears to be a parody on the way mainstream commercial advertisement 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."
*Arizona Premiere. Maggie, a graduate of UCLA, is originally from Arizona.
ALIX STEWART LAMBERT
Platipussy - The Trailer (4:20)
A pseudo-documentary which follows the rise and demise of a riot grrrrl band.
*Arizona Premiere. Platipussy - The Trailer was part of the exhibitions "Up Close And Personal", The Philadelphia Museum of Art, and "The Young and Restless", The Museum of Modern Art, New York. "The Young and Restless" traveled to Seattle, Austria, Mexico, Greece and Paris. Alix has been written about in publications such as Art Forum, Art in America, The Village Voice, Flash Art and The New York Times, to name just a few. Her work has also appeared on MTV News.
MATT MARELLO Sitcoms (2:27)
Bewitched with a special guest star.
*Arizona Premiere. See Matt's previous entry above.
KYOUNG HEE OH **JUROR & LeBLANC AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD**
Songbird (13:21)
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.
*Arizona Premiere. Student project from Cal Arts.
PAUL WILSON
50's T.V. As I Woulda Had It (Medical Breakthrough)... (1:00)
A celebration of a few old t.v.ads, as Paul would interpret them if he had control over what aired in, say, 1957.
*See Paul's previous entry above.
BOB PECE
What About People (:51)
A non-juried public service announcement by one of the co-organizers of the festival.
*Arizona Premiere. See Bob's previous entry above.
BILL ALVES
Hiway 70 (10:55) Computer animation inspired by long night drives on lonely Texas highways.
*Arizona Premiere. Bill Alves currently teaches at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, where his courses include Computer Music, World Music, and The Harmony of Sound and Light.
ROGER HOLDEN, ANDY LEONTOVICH, DRAKE VAN PRAAG
Buena Vista Ferry (2:55) A journey on the Buena Vista Ferry in Buena Vista, Oregon.
*Arizona Premiere. Aired on Northwest Morose. This was a RAD productions' second class project from COMM 382 at Oregon State University.
PHILIP SCARBOROUGH
The Light (6:30)
We 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.
*Arizona Premiere. The Light is a senior student film from the University of Mississippi. Premiered at the Brechenridge Film Festival and has screened at the following: International Cindy Competition (Cindy Award), Chicago International Film Festival (Certificate of Merit), Idyllwild International Film Fest and the New Orleans Film Festival.
AUDIENCE CHOICE AWARD BALLOT - VOTES CAN BE CAST AT THE END OF THE FESTIVAL.
VOTES WILL ONLY BE ACCEPTED AT THE FESTIVAL THAT EVENING.
THIS WAY WE CAN MAKE SURE INDIVIDUALS ACTUALLY VIEWED THE WORK.