The 90 minute program will feature a selection of short films and videos that screened at the 18th Annual Dallas Video Festival, including short narrative fiction, animation, documentary, and experimental video. It will be presented by Laura Neitzel, Executive Director of the Dallas Video Festival.
The Best of the Video Fest Tour is made possible by grant from the Texas Commission on the Arts.
Seven videos will be screened ranging in times from 4 minutes to 28 minutes.
Among them will be "3,800,000 words" by Lubbock artist James W.
Johnson whose video is a barrage of images to test your processing ability;
Californian Cassandra C. Jones', "Eventide" which arranges 1300
snapshots of sunsets in a snap-motion animation; Oscar-nominee "Ryan"
a biography
of animator Ryan Larken by Canadian Chris Landrethís; and "Uso
Justo" an existential comedy about a small town thrown into turmoil when
an experimental filmmaker decides to shoot his next film there by Coleman
Miller of Minneapolis.
Still from "Uso Justo", Coleman Miller
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 about this program contact the Art Museum at (325) 653-3333.
San Angelo Museum
of Fine Arts
One Love Street
San Angelo, Texas 76903
Fax: (325) 658 - 6800
Phone: (325) 653 -
3333
e-mail:
museum@samfa.org