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…