The Artist Reception will include a screening of one of the 4 pieces, along with the trailers, a digital LookBook, a short Artist Talk, some female-led 90s dance tunes, and lots to look at on the walls, tables and screens. Stay for the weekly viewing party of Rupaul’s Drag Race 8-9:30pm, or make your way to The Arcata Playhouse where an art exhibit and dance party ensue from 7pm on to celebrate the opening day of the Festival.
More on the Zero To Fierce Screening:
The MUSE
a Screening of 4 short media pieces followed by an Artist Discussion & Q&A
Moderated by Trey Cartier
@ the 9th Annual Zero To Fierce Festival (02F)
@ The Arcata Playhouse
Tuesday, March 4th, 2025
7-9pm
$10.00 tickets
Address: 1251 9th St., Arcata, CA
https://www.playhousearts.org/zerotofierce
The Muse:
Tawny spent more than two decades making film and video work around her early muse, a woman she calls “Samantha,” whom she fell in love with when she was twenty-three and danced, with two Brits, in a review show in “hostess clubs” in Japan. Now she is premiering the short film, Natasha & Sam, based on the feature screenplay of the same name, along with several other media pieces about her efforts to tell this story. She has come to realize, just as her graduate professor claimed, that even though the feature film did not get made, that with these collected media pieces and films about the film- she actually has made the movie.
The screening series will be followed by a discussion and Q&A session moderated by Cal Poly Humboldt film lecturer, Dr. M. Cartier (aka Trey Cartier) who is also the founder and head curator at The Summitt Gallery, where these media pieces are concurrently being exhibited across the month of march, along with the feature script, some photographs of that time in Japan in the mid 90s, and other relics from the making-of efforts.
Films & Videos to be shown:
[Note that the 4 media pieces will not be shown at The Summitt until after the March 4th Zero To Fierce screening (at the Arcata Playhouse) which is the premiere of the film, Natasha & Sam.]
Lost Almost
2005 / 10-minutes
Format: 16mm & Super 8
This Progress
2018 / 7-minutes
Format: HD video
The Making of Natasha & Sam
2025 / 6-minutes
Format: HD video
Natasha & Sam
*premiere 2020 / 21-minutes
Format: Red camera