Past Event at the Central Art Center
06-18-04
ANNUAL ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM SHORT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL TRAVELS TO SANTA ANA WITH RAT POWERED FILMS!!!
FRIDAY JUNE 18TH 8 p.m.
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 and John D. Spiak, Arizona State University Art Museum. The jury process included 322 entries from 27 States and 21 Nations.
1. 84715, trt 03:44
GUILLERMO CARBONELL, Montevideo, Uruguay
A man sees on his dreams a five-digit number. When he wakes up, the number starts to appear in various elements of his everyday life. Coincidence or a signal?
2. Teddy Huggsbeary, trt 4:27
BRIAN OAKES, Providence, Rhode Island
Lonely, little Amanda wishes her Teddy Bear would come to life and be her friend. A magical flying gnome appears and grants her wish.
3. War is Hell, trt 04:00
BOB PARIS, Richmond, Virginia
Life in American during wartime isn’t easy. Fortunately, there are people on TV who can help.
4. Homeland Security, trt 05:0
RICKY FAUST, Phoenix, Arizona
A short story of a man so entrapped by the paranoia and fear of his “post September 11 world” that he bars himself inside his home.
5. Hello (*LeBlanc Audience Choice Award), trt 06:31
JONATHAN NIX, Sydney, Australia
A lovesick loner struggles to find the right words.
6. Untitled Book Series, trt 12:30
MICHAEL TRIGILIO
Oakland, California
Untitled Book Series explores our cultural infatuation with popular media, anxiety, and narcissism. Much of the work seeks to deconstruct the nature of obsession, both personal and political.
7. Garpenfargle (*AZ Award and Audience Choice Honorable Mention), trt 03:44
EDWARD KIM and BILL KERSEY, Tucson, Arizona
The master of the house is leaving and young Hobbes is left alone, unable to follow the rules the master expected of him. Everything was just garpenfargle.
8. Skip, trt 8:45
ANN STEUERNAGEL, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Ship is composed of found footage of children attempting to overcome an array of physical obstacles and is inspired, in part, by Alvin Lucier’s I am sitting in a room.
9. Downhome Cookin’, trt 01:06
PETER ENNS, Greenbelt, Maryland
A hungry hillbilly prepares a special dish by following his family’s favorite recipe: roadkill raccoon.
10. Vanity (*Juror Choice Award), trt 04:56
JEREMY DEAN, St. Augustine, Florida
Through the eyes of a man raking flowers, Vanity explores the balance between the need to work for survival, while becoming lost in the mundane grind of daily life. Asking the question - how much of our time is spent on personal vanity?
11. Articulate Citrus, trt 01:06
DEVIN NORDMEYER
Phoenix, Arizona
A man finds a talking orange in his refrigerator.
12. Inventing: Music, trt 09:36
MATT STRATTON and DALLAS TRINKLE, Chicago, Illinois
Bill Henderson lives his dreams on the edge of society. When he’s not riding his hog, he’s playing his music to the only people that can truly understand an outlaw. A story about how the way in which we view ourselves rearranges the way we see and remember the world.
13. Johnny Dullstar, trt 06:34
BOB PARIS
Richmond, Virginia
A grim look at the myth of Hollywood, Johnny Dullstar is an experimental documentary portrait of the one-legged man who shines the stars along Hollywood Boulevard.
14. There Was A Man And He Was Mad, trt 02:44
BENJAMIN B. KINSLEY
Granville, Ohio
A cut-out animation set to a traditional children’s folk sing-along song. It is a nonsensical story where an old man, controlled by a choir of children, is forced to endure a number of nonsensical activities.
15. La Brea (*Juror Choice Award), trt 12:26
GABRIEL LICHSTEIN, Los Angeles, California
On his last night in Los Angeles, desperate to escape his overly helpful friends the more Scott struggles the more trapped he becomes.
16. My Favorite Things, trt 03:33
BOB PARIS, Richmond, Virginia
The warm and comforting tones of a classic song merge with surreal animation from TV news’ war coverage in this disturbing meditation of America’s distant war in Iraq.
17. Paper Insect, trt 05:14
ALISON DAVIS, Montreal, Canada
A creature’s obsession with collecting insects reaches its pinnacle when he captures a giant dragonfly, but his new acquisition could threaten the entire collection.
ATSUKO KUBOTA. Los Angeles, California
The banal days go by without you realizing it. Vividly colored watercolor integrated with 3D computer animation presents the details of a somewhat unremarkable normal life to question beauties in common things.
