Cinema Arts Festival Houston 2010

Shorts Program – Presented by Walley Films

Running time 45 minutes

Jimmy Kuehnle's Big Red and Walking Fish captures the struggle of a performance artist as he creates large inflatable suits and brings them to public audiences.

The Art Guys Marry A Plant documents an event in which The Art Guys married a live oak tree in The Lillie and Hugh Roy Cullen Sculpture Garden of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

The Death of Contemporary Art Month documents a parade held to honor the end of San Antonio's twenty-three year tradition of celebrating Contemporary Art Month in July.

The Corn Crib documents the creation and installation of a photographic exhibit by Ansen Seale inside of a stacked-stone building from the 1850s.

Maybe If Your Metaphors Weren't So Obvious follows the creation of a large scale house of cards installation by Gary Sweeney at Sala Diaz in San Antonio, Texas.

Ken Little is a short documentary that captures the elaborate process of a highly skilled artist as he creates a sculpture from bronze cast shoes, belts and power cords.

Chris Sauter is a short documentary that follows an artist as he carves into gallery walls and builds a telescope and microscope from the retrieved material for an installation entitled "The Whole World".

At the Hour of Our Death follows photographer Sarah Sudhoff as she creates large-scale color photographs of stained fabrics from trauma scenes and discusses the invisibility of death in our culture.

Vincent Valdez is an excerpt from an upcoming documentary that captures a painter’s first animation of a friend and fallen soldier’s portrait.