The 90 minute program will feature a selection of short films and videos that screened at the 19th Annual Dallas Video Festival, including dramatic narrative, comedy, animation, documentary, and experimental video. It will be presented by Laura Neitzel, Executive Director of the Dallas Video Festival. Below are a few of the videos to be featured at the viewing Tuesday, April 3, 7 p.m. at the Musuem.
The Best of the Video Fest Tour is made possible by a grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.
stills from Stunkard
Stunkard, Director: Andrew Irvine, Dallas TX
Genre: Narrative/Fiction, Length: 9 mins
Multilayered and visually allegorical, this is a hushed narrative of yellow weeds, Cowboys, and Indians. Symbolic as Hawthorne but coated in an Eggleston style ambience, a film short of gargantuan depth and prowess.
stills from Bubblecraft
Bubblecraft, Director: Geoff Marslett, Austin, TX, Length: 6 mins
Geoff Marslett combines original atmospheric melodies of Piliotdrift with hand drawn and monochromatic backgrounds to create a mesmerizing texture of extraterrestrial bubbles that alter the humdrum average lives of a businessman, an office worker, and a fourth grade public school student.
Still from Looking for Lulia
Looking for Lulia, Director: Jaime Cano, El Paso, TX
Genre: Documentary, Length: 10 mins
Jaime Cano's touching short documentary provides a visual memory of one woman's life, death, and struggle with cancer. With lucid imagery spoken through subtitled Spanish recollections.
stills from A Post Oil Man
A Post Oil Man
Director: James M. Johnson, Lubbock, TX, Length: 3 mins
Cubism and realism come together in this abstract animation experimental narrative about a local idiot's preparation for what he considers to be the end of modern civilization when oil runs out. Inspired by a horrifying actual possibility, by DVF vet and Lubbock-based artist James W. Johnson.
The Dallas Video Festival is internationally renowned as the nation's first and oldest festival devoted to video and is now in its nineteenth year. Over a five day period, the Dallas Video Festival will present over 200 works, ranging from intelligent, witty 30-second television commercials, mesmerizing video art, compelling documentaries, surrealistic animation, innovative digital features, intelligent, kid-friendly fare, thought-provoking panels, interdisciplinary performances, and narrative shorts.
The Video Association of Dallas is dedicated to promoting an understanding of video as a creative medium and cultural force in our society, and to supporting and advancing the work of Texas artists working in video and the electronic arts. Through its programs and information services, the Video Association intends to educate and inform artists, students, educators, critics, video and film producers and an interested public so they may better understand, appreciate and evaluate the creative possibilities of the video medium. For more information visit www.dallasvideo.org or www.videofest.org.
For more information about this program contact the Art Museum at (325) 653-3333.
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