Posts filed under ‘Annual Short Film & Video Festival’
16+ AMAZING YEARS! – A THANK YOU FROM JOHN SPIAK
After 16+ years with the Arizona State University Art Museum I have announced my departure. I have been fortunate to receive an offer to lead the vision of an institution in Southern California for which I cannot pass up.
(image: Grand Central Art Center)
My new role will be Director/Chief Curator of the California State University, Fullerton, Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, CA. Located in the historic Grand Central Building (1924) of Downtown Santa Ana, the institution houses a large gallery space, a project gallery, retail space, an 85-seat theater and classrooms. Another key attraction of the space is the second floor, which houses twenty-seven MFA student apartments with functioning artist studios for each resident on the main floor. The institution also houses an artist-in-residence apartment and studio with an on-going international residency program.
(image: Grand Central Art Center, CSUF MFA Apartments, Santa Ana, CA)
If you are not yet familiar with the institution, here is a link with some details on the Grand Central Art Center:
http://www.grandcentralartcenter.com/aboutus.php
The added bonus to this venue is its location, in the heart of a very active and involved community with great diversity of culture, vision and influence, just five minutes from where I grew up. It will allow me to hit the ground running, knowing the lay of the land, as well as local peer institutions and colleagues with which I am excited to collaborate.
And if that isn’t enough reason to visit, here is another…
Grand Central Art Center with present a solo exhibition with artist George Herms during the Pacific Standard Time exhibitions throughout Southern California:
Chaos’ Job…Restrain Order
September 3 – October 16, 2011
http://www.grandcentralartcenter.com/ArtGallery_gcartgallery.php?id=365
I will begin my new role on September 6th, so if you find yourself in the Southern California area, please let me know so we can connect and I can provide you a tour of the Grand Central Art Center.
My new contact information will be:
John D. Spiak
Director/Chief Curator
Grand Central Art Center
125 N. Broadway
Santa Ana, CA 92701
t. 714.567.7233
Thank you to everyone who has made this journey so wonderful – the artists, students, collectors, community leaders, docents, funders, friends and colleagues. I need to especially give my full gratitude and thanks to Marilyn A. Zeitlin, Heather Sealy Lineberry and Gordon Knox, who provided me with support, guidance and trust, allowing me to curate projects through my vision.
My very best to you,
John D. Spiak
Appointed Director/Chief Curator, CSUF’s Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA
15th ANNUAL ASU ART MUSEUM SHORT FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL
Mark your calendar…
SATURDAY
APRIL 23, 2011 @ 8 p.m.
TEMPE, ARIZONA
FREE
(Bring Your Own Seating)
Arizona State University Art Museum is proud to present a number of short films and videos by artists from around the world.
Thank you to all the outstanding artists who entered the 2011 Festival. The jury process included 482 entries from 43 states and 36 nations, with 20 works selected for screening.
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
*Juror Choice Awards and **AZ Award noted below. LeBlanc Audience Choice Award will be announced online following the festival.
WORKS SELECTED BY THE JURY FOR THE PROGRAM:
Werewolf Trouble (*Juror Choice Award)
Charlie Anderson
Boston, Massachusetts
Ryan is a werewolf. Horrified to wake up one morning only partially transformed, he enlists his friends’ aid to restore his full human form in time for an important event.
La Piñata
Manuel Arija
Madrid, Spain
Can a street mime cheer you up?
Cousins: a nature memoir
Stephen Ausherman
Albuquerque, New Mexico
A brief message on an answering machine hints at another death in the family.
Eco Ninja
Jonathan Browning
Los Angeles, California
An environmental short with a kick.
Perspective
Jon Byron
Orange, California
Three men from three different backgrounds share their introspective view of the world, provoking the realization: We’re not as different as we think we are.
Enrique Wrecks the World
David Chai
San Jose, California
Enrique learns the hard way that actions speak louder than birds!
Transferase
Terry Chatkupt
Alhambra, California
Transferase portrays a protagonist overwhelmed with anxiety after receiving a disturbing phone call. What proceeds is a sequence of small events that operate as a psychological excavation, unveiling the rapidly changing and unstable characteristics of both the protagonist and the LA landscape.
Toothless
Steven Dorrington
Essex, England
A mockumentary following the Toothfairy’s transformation as she resorts to inventive but unethical methods of tooth collection in her heinous quest for a better life.
Spectacles
Jeremy Fain
New York, New York
A young artist begins mentally undressing a beautiful passerby, yet each layer of clothing he peels away is followed by another, and another, and another…
It’s Over!
Gita Farid
Mesa, Arizona
A ragtag and beaten French Resistance fighter and a courageous and pissed- off nun risk their lives to protect Jewish orphans hidden in a convent in France.
Whirling Dervish
William Fisher
Denver, Colorado
A thoughtful, enchanting reading of a letter from the past.
Frogsy
Ariel Gregory
Missoula, Montana
A typical swamp creature takes a long, hard look at itself.
News, Weather & Sports
Dan Hudson
Canmore, Canada
A beautiful and haunting video that reflects on the human condition.
Dodo-Valse
Yuliya Lanina
Brooklyn, New York
Dodo-Valse depicts a vision of an idyllic past as seen through the eye of a forest deity.
Dan’s Big Find (**AZ Award)
Jane Lindsay
Tempe, Arizona
The story of a man who finds an arrowhead while shooting targets with his black powder pistol.
La Memoria Die Cani (*Juror Choice Award)
Simone Massi
Pergola, Italy
My cheeks brush against the stone, I look out from a break in the wall.
Pretty Kitty
Gregory McDonald
Burbank, California
A man gets revenge on his cat for taunting him with silence.
Ex-Sex (*Juror Choice Award)
Michael Mohan
Los Angeles, California
Two former lovers navigate their fizzled relationship by confusing their emotional needs with their physical desires. Ex-Sex makes it better. Ex-Sex makes it worse.
The Late Mr. Mokun Williams
Kenneth Price
Greensboro, North Carolina
This pre-technological fable mirrors a modern day spam email in a handwritten letter by a frantic African girl on the run.
La La Love You
Max Sokoloff
San Francisco, California
A teenager gets ready for her boyfriend to come over and gets herself into a difficult position.
THANK YOU TO THE FOLLOWING FOR THEIR ANNUAL SUPPORT OF THE FESTIVAL:
FRY’S KETTLE CORN
http://fryskettlecorn.com/
STAR VIDEO DUPLICATING
http://www.starvideo.com/
Visit the ASU Art Museum Festival Page for guidelines regarding next year’s festival and a history of this annual event:
http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/filmfest
Please show your continued support of the ASU Art Museum by making a donation online through the link provided below. It is a very easy process, and donations of as little as $5 can help provide the foundation for future programs and exhibitions.
https://secure.asufoundation.org/giving/online-gift.asp?fid=371
CALL FOR ENTRIES – 15th Annual Short Film and Video Festival
15th Annual
Arizona State University Art Museum
Short Film and Video Festival
CALL FOR ENTRIES
FREE TO ENTER WORK – FREE TO ATTEND!
Deadline for Entering Work
FRIDAY, JANUARY 28, 2011
Brief history of the festival, guidelines for entry, a complete list of the works that have been screened at past festivals and a few success stories can be found online at the following address:
http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/filmfest
Festival is scheduled to take place
SATURDAY, APRIL 23, 2011
8:00pm
The festival is free for artists to enter their work and free to attend.
ASU Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival is an ASU Art Museum Moving Targets initiative. http://asuartmuseum.asu.edu/movingtargets
Events at ASU Art Museum, April 2010
Events at Arizona State University Art Museum for April 2010:
April 3: First Saturdays for Families, a free hands-on art project for kids 4-12 and their families. This month’s art project is watercolors! See our blog post for more information.
[EDIT: The list of films to be screened on April 17 is now available on our site!]
April 10: Street Party, at Hoskin Ryan Consultants property, Indian School Rd and 2nd Ave, Phoenix. From 4 – 10 p.m., $5 at the gate or online, and kids 12 and younger are free! Proceeds benefit ASU Art Museum exhibitions and programs.
April 17: ASU Art Museum 14th Annual Short Film & Video Festival, out on the plaza behind the museum. Bring your own chairs and blankets to be comfy for a gorgeous night under the stars watching short films submitted from all over the world. A totally free event!
April 20: Gallery talks by guest curator Bobby Silverman (at the Ceramics Research Center) and artist William Wylie (in the top gallery).
Arizona State University Art Museum is free and open to the public. The main museum is located at the southeast corner of Mill Avenue at 10th Street, in Tempe, Arizona. The ASU Art Museum Ceramics Research Center is just across the street at the northeast corner of Mill Avenue at 10th Street, and free parking for museum visitors is available directly outside in marked spaces. Please visit our web site for hours and current exhibitions and events.
See you in April!
-diane
our next First Saturdays for Families project
watercolor painting by our talented Education Assistant Teresa
April is quickly approaching and we still have lots going on at ASU Art Museum!
First Saturdays for Families is Saturday, April 3, from 11 a.m. – 3 p.m. This month we’re playing with watercolors – what a fun spring project!
And don’t forget about the second annual Street Party coming up on Saturday, April 10! This year’s event will be at the Hoskin Ryan property, on Indian School and 2nd Ave. in Phoenix, from 4 – 10 p.m. I’ll post more about that soon, but in the meantime, you can get tickets on our site.
If that’s not enough for you, the 14th Annual Short Film & Video Festival is screening on the back plaza Saturday, April 17! Bring out your stadium chairs, blankets and anything else to get comfy for a night out under the stars and some great short films. As soon as our web page is up with the official selections I’ll post again with more information on what you’ll see that night.
And hey- we’re on Yelp! If you’re on Yelp and have been to the museum or any of our events, tell us what you think! We’d love to hear your feedback and your suggestions to keep making our events even better for you.
-diane
Sundance ♥s ASU Art Museum
Some exciting 2010 Sundance Film Festival connections for the Arizona State University Art Museum we knew you would enjoy…
Phoenix based artist/videomaker Matthew Moore’s work is selected as part of the Official 2010 Sundance New Frontiers program to take place during this year’s festival.
You will remember Moore’s farm installation and photo works from the 2006 exhibition New American City: Artists Look Forward. He will be doing a major video art installation at a supermarket in Park City. Here is a link:
Michael Mohan, a filmmaker from our 2008 ASU Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival and whose work The Interrogation appeared in the recent I’m Keeping an Eye on You group video exhibition at the Museum, has his newest film One Too Many Mornings as an Official Selection for the 2010 Sundance Film Festival.
ASU Art Museum 2008 Short Film and Video Festival
Shirin Neshat’s Women Without Men, which won her the Silver Lion for best director at the 66th Venice Film Festival in 2009 and was screened for the very first time publically as an early edit version in November of 2007 when the artist presented a lecture at ASU Art Museum, is an Official Sundance Selection this year. The artist had a major solo exhibition at the ASU Art Museum in 2001:
Pipilotti Rist’s Lobe of Lung (The Saliva Ooze Away to the Underground) will be included in the Sundance New Frontiers program. Her work was presented in a solo exhibition at the ASU Art Museum in 2002:
Congratulations to all of our ASU Art Museum friends!
Who’ll be next? Join us on the plaza for the 14th Annual Short Film & Video Festival on April 17!
– Curator John and diane
ASU Art Museum ♥s Video Art
Annual Short Film & Video Festival on ASU Art Museum plaza!
Ah, I love the museum in the spring. The students are coming back with new excitement after the holiday break, the weather outside is perfect, the exhibitions at the museum are world-class (as always) and we have great annual events coming up soon!
This season is especially great for us video fans (of which I am one!):
- We have video art as part of the new exhibition Altered States: Paintings by Gordon Cheung, opening Jan. 9. Four of his new pieces, to be exact.
- We’ll be screening Mel Chin’s award-winning video work 9-11/9-11 on Feb. 2 – look for details shortly! (I was watching a bit of this earlier – it’s like an animated graphic novel and very cool.)
- There’s a full-on video exhibition opening Feb. 20 called Forged Power: Ferran Mendoza, Alvaro Sau and William Wylie – this will be open through May 29.
- And wrapping it up (at least for the spring season) on April 17, the 14th Annual Short Film and Video Festival! You don’t want to miss this great evening out on the plaza behind the museum – we screen the selected films out on the back wall of the museum. Bring a chair for a really fun night out under the stars. And IT’S FREE.
Speaking of the Film Festival, this is your reminder that your deadline for submissions is Feb. 5! Check out our web site for details on how and where to send your short film for consideration into our juried festival. There’s no cost to submit your film.
Of course, we have way more going on this season than just video art. First Saturdays for Families is in full swing starting Feb. 6; the Ceramics Research Center’s studio tour weekend is Feb. 27-28 and Ceram-A-Rama is March 4-7; back by popular demand, the 2nd annual Street Party is planned for April 10 (watch this blog for more details to come!) and of course, great exhibitions year-round. (I’m really looking forward to seeing Wanxin Zhang’s Ten Year Survey exhibition).
We have a very busy spring season planned and hope you’ll join us for the fun, and the art!
-diane
“I’ve often said, the only thing standing between me and greatness is me”
Come see what greatness awaits at the 13th Annual ASU Art Museum Short Film and Video Festival!
When: Saturday, April 18, starting at 8 p.m. <<- that’s tomorrow night!
Where: on the plaza at the Nelson Fine Arts Center- just behind the museum. *please bring your own seating for a night under the stars!
Cost: nothing. nada. FREE!
The event is open to all ages, but please be aware that the second half of the evening may not be appropriate for younger audiences.
Need help to get here? maps & directions
And if you’re wondering, the quote’s by Woody Allen.
See you tomorrow!
-diane
It’s time: the 2009 Short Film & Video Festival
ASU Art Museum visitors watching Nadia Hironaka: The Late Show; photo: Ken Howie
One of my favorite things to do at this time of year, aside from spend time with family and make (and eat!) lots of my grandma’s Christmas cookies, is watch films. I love film; indie flicks, foreign stories and good old blow-everything-up-Hollywood-style movies. I especially love video art, so I was really excited to join ASU Art Museum earlier this year where video art is truly appreciated and promoted as an important creative medium.
Ok, you don’t care about me or my grandma’s cookies. So here’s what you need to know to submit your free entry into the 13th Annual Short Film & Video Festival at ASU Art Museum:
1. There is no fee to enter and anyone can do it. Entries are accepted throughout the year from filmmakers worldwide.
2. Entries must be not longer than 10 minutes.
3. Send your entries to the Museum directly and please include your name and contact information.
See our Web site for all of the details, which are kept pretty simple, really.
The deadline for entry this year is February 6, 2009. The selected entries will be screened on the Plaza at the Nelson Fine Arts Center on April 18 at 8pm.
Need even more video art? We’ve got you covered: our very own John Spiak is bringing the show he curated for Aqua Art Miami to town later next year. The full exhibition, titled I’m Keeping an Eye on You, will be at ASU Art Museum in August, 2009.
-Diane
ASU Art Museum 