The Wexner Center for the Arts proves this Friday that a great film doesn’t have to be two hours long. A must-see event for both directors and fans of independent films, the third annual Ohio Short Film and Video Showcase features 22 short films and videos, all independently produced in Ohio.Dave Filipi, associate curator of the media arts at the Wexner Center, said none of the films in the showcase could be longer than 20 minutes, and all of them must have been produced in Ohio in the past 18 months.”We had close to 60 entries,” Filipi said. “We selected works to have a balance of styles, topics, and points-of-view.””Dinner at the Tarantino Home,” directed by Sheldon Glessier of Columbus, will kick off the evening of entertainment. His film is a fictional encounter at the dinner table with a young Quentin Tarantino and his parents.”Agnus Dei,” directed by Department of Art lecturer Jeremy Newman, is an experimental video that presents the circumstances surrounding the Holocaust in black-and-white documentary style.”This video is a plea for tolerance, demonstrating that in the Holocaust, religion became a victim of its own intolerance,” Newman said. “The fragile beauty of religion is shattered by Hitler’s manipulation of Judeo-Christianity. Hitler used the historic intolerance of monotheistic religion as a weapon against both the Jews and Christians of Europe.” Newman intertwines Christianity and Judaism by using religious images to show spiritual beauty and images of a book burning to illustrate a point.”The book burning is presented in a way that is aesthetically pleasing,” Newman said. “It shows how people could be drawn into the book burning and want to participate. It was a sacrifice, a cleansing, a ritual.” “Agnus Dei” ends with a startling piece of information – the Nazis murdered six million Jews and seven million Christians. Newman chose the title “Agnus Dei,” Latin for “The Lamb of God,” because the Judeo-Christian concepts of sacrifice and martyrdom were realized in Nazi Germany.Another film, “Darts,” directed by Lior Ben-Aharon of Athens, is a preview for a non-existent movie. “Darts” bears a striking resemblance to “The Karate Kid,” with a young man who wishes to win a darts tournament but does not understand the training routine of his darts teacher.Robert C. Banks of Cleveland submitted “MPG: Motion Picture Genocide,” a gripping film that uses media images and vivid hand-written messages to show the not-so-beautiful side of American cinema and the mass media.”We do the Ohio Short Film and Video Showcase because we are a contemporary arts center and there is definitely a call for us to show independent, local work,” Filipi said. “The number of film festivals is growing and growing – there is always so much of a premium put on awards. Our festival is not about awards; it is about having an opportunity to have your work shown and have an audience see it. We think that’s really important.”Every time we show it (the festival), we have a really big audience. Many of the films are funny, and people find it really entertaining,” he said.Tickets for the event are available at the Wexner Center ticket office. The price is $2. For more information, call the Wexner Center at 292-3535.