Bragging Rights 2007-08:

Bryan Leister

Assistant Professor and multimedia artist Bryan Leister animated short, PR, was shown as part of the 27th Annual Black Maria Film Festival. The animation, “P.R.” won second prize in this year's festival.

The Black Maria festival had this to say about P.R.
“This biting work is a conceptual deconstruction of an ill-considered pronouncement by a noted televangelist. The artist ‘metamorphizes’ one icon into another as he turns media-driven culture against itself. P.R. is a compact, yet effective protest against right-wing reactionary thinking. Using a simple trope of animation, Bryan Leister finds a visual expression for the hypocrisies of interventionist rhetoric about foreign extremism.”

About the Black Maria Film Festival:
Since 1981, the annual Black Maria Film and Video Festival, an international juried competition and award tour, has been fulfilling its mission to advocate, exhibit and reward cutting edge works from independent film and video makers. With previous Oscar nominated and international award-winning shorts, the festival is widely known for its national public exhibition program, which remains loyal to featuring a variety of bold contemporary works drawn from the annual collection of 50 award winning films and videos. Now in its 27th year, the Black Maria Festival awards more than $10,000 in cash to independent filmmakers, distinguishing itself as a cornerstone for artists to express the inventive, insightful, and uncommon spirit. Festival Director John Columbus will present a program of the 2008 winning shorts, ranging from a variety of narrative, animation, documentary, and experimental.

For more information:

http://www.artsresource.org

Photo above of Bryan Leister: Clinton T. Sander, photographer and alumnus of UC Denver’s College of Arts & Media, Visual Arts Department.