JSF / Wexner Selections Out Now!

SELECTIONS FROM THE ART & TECH RESIDENCY PROGRAM
AT THE WEXNER CENTER FOR THE ARTS

ABOUT ART & TECH:
Since 1989, the Art & Technology residency program, part of the Media Arts department at the Wexner Center for the Arts, has provided in-kind, post-production support for over 250 artists working in film and video. This volume of The Journal of Short Film represents some of the highlights from the past 10 years. Art & Tech has been a sanctuary for artists who are looking for support (sometimes technical, sometime creative, and often both) and an environment that encourages experimentation and welcomes the technical challenges that so often result.

These works represent only a handful of the many that have been supported during our tenure. It has been a pleasure to work with such an amazing group of artists and we look forward to the next 10 years!

Jennifer Lange
Associate Curator, Media Arts

Paul Hill
Editor and Studio Manager




SELECTIONS Playlist:

1. Jem Cohen - Blessed are the Dreams of Men (2005, 9:17) minutes
2. Andrés Denegri - Uyuni (2005, 8:08)
3. Natasha Spencer - The House She Flew In On: The Video (2002, 2:48)
4. Joe Sola and Will Eno - Watercolor (2006, 4:13)
5. William E. Jones - Mansfield 1962 (2005, 9:29)
6. Vanalyne Green - Saddle Sores (1998, 19:45)
7. Kelly Reichardt - Travis (2004, 11:46)
8. Deborah Stratman - The Magician’s House (2007, 5:45)
9. Leah Gilliam - Apeshit (1999, 6:23)
10. Sam Green - lot 63 grave c (2005, 9:47)
11. K8 Hardy and Wynne Greenwood - New Report, Artist Unknown (2006, 16:26)

Visit www.thejsf.org to order yours today.

Design Samples

I've recently decided to look for a few freelance jobs this summer, to help get my wife started in nursing school. We're doing everything we can to cut out all the extras, trim down our budget and make it work...

More samples online -- design portfolio.

A recently completed postcard series for the Journal of Short Film

JSF Vol 6 out now!!!

The Journal of Short Film releases Volume 6 (Winter 2007)

Columbus, OH (February 6, 2007) -- The Journal of Short Film released Volume 6 (Winter 2007) today. The JSF is a quarterly DVD publication of exceptional, peer-reviewed short films. Volume 6 contains the JSF’s
first films from Australia. To date, the JSF has published 61 filmmakers from 8 countries.

The Journal welcomed Sam Green as a guest editor on Volume 6. Sam was a noted short film maker before making the feature documentary “The Weather Underground,” which was nominated for an Academy Award. Sam has helped to fulfill the Journal’s mission of supporting diversity, experimentation, and independent work.

1. WE’RE GOING TO THE ZOO – Josh Safdie (2006)
2. ALICE SEES THE LIGHT – Ariana Gerstein (2006)
3. THE SASKATCHEWAN TRILOGY, PART I – Brian Stockton (2002)
4. FIRST LADIES – Natalie Frigo (2006)
5. LUCKY – Nash Edgerton (2005)
6. RUMSFELD RULES – Bryan Boyce (2006)
7. CARMICHAEL & SHANE – Rob Carlton and Alex Weinress (2006)
8. INTERSTATE, PART I – Jason Cortlund & Julia Halperin (2006)
9. DON’T READ NOW, PART I – Michael Saul (2006)
10. REMOTE COMMOTION – Catherine Galasso (2006)
11. THE TOUCH – Vanessa Woods (2005)

---Oscar news:
A film that appeared in Volume 4 (Summer 2006)—Borja Cobeaga’s “Éramos Pocos (One Too Many)”—was just nominated for the Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film.

Short films... in the mail

Over the last year or so, I've been reading about, watching, and making short films. I once thought the short film was akin to a sketch, a study leading to a larger finished film - which was to be viewed in the context of a larger body of work.

My impression of the short film has changed.

Alas, I have sadly overlooked many wonderful filmmakers/ artists/ and films due to the generally less seen and less screened work which is usually difficult for theaters, even small art-house establishments, to book. Most short films are exhibited within a programmed group of films - and are extremely short run in any one location. Count yourself lucky if a short film screens more than once in your hometown.

Perhaps the short film is gaining ground with mainstream cinema audiences due to the outpouring of DVD extra's.

Besides the now ubiquitous online video sites, (once independent Youtube), other organisations now offer interested viewers short film collections on DVD, and in monthly screening programs. At my previous residence in Tucson, Arizona we enjoyed more than one microcinema event each month (microcinema refering to any public film screening dedicated to indepedent films, and alternative to the mainstream theater industry. usually organized in a non-profit vein). The Loft Cinema holds a short film contest each month, and the folks at Tucsonfilm.com present their Tucson Shortfest, a program of international and local shortfilms, once every few months.

There is however an undiscovered diamond, in the Columbus rough, called The Journal of Short Film. A collection of 10 short films on DVD available quarterly by mail. The JSF accepts submissions from filmmakers all over the world, listing more than 50 filmmakers and 8 different countries at it's recent one-year anniversary. The JSF is doing what only a handful of other organizations are even trying to do, and with gusto. Now, of course, in the wide world of indiefilm, shortfilm, and film/video art - the JSF is not breaking much ground. Since the JSF has no connect to a larger organization, festival, or event as of yet - it stands alone in it's singular interest of publishing works of short film for the benefit of the filmmakers and the viewers alone.

Check them out, The Journal of Short Film, as the price is just right for those of us on limited budgets. Karl Mechem is doing great things through his Journal of Short Film, and his rough little diamond is gaining exposure all over the place.

The JSF recently published it's 5th collection, including some wonderful films by Peter Sillen, Sara Zia Ebrahimi, Phillip Hastings, Jen Schneider and others.