SANTA ROSA FILM FESTIVAL - Santa Rosa International Film Festival

Santa Rosa International Film Festival
art anD cinema:
a Duet Dialogue
Ongoing Exhibit, Festival Hospitality Lounge,
#1 Santa Rosa Avenue, Santa Rosa
Artists Reception - Friday, September 16, 2011, 5-8pm
Through their unique ability to probe the artistic intentions of five different films
that will screen at the SRIFF, five Sonoma County artists have created their own
interpretive artistic reaction through their Art. Each Art piece will be displayed at its
corresponding film screening and at the Festival Hospitality Lounge.
Gerald Huth
Connie Mygatt
Don Ponte Official Art for the SRIFF
The film Only A Number is about a Hungarian woman who
survived the Holocaust. This film spoke to me very strongly,
as my family was refugees from Nazi Germany, who came
to America after 13 years without a home. In my work, I
have tried to show the de-humanization of the concentration
camps, the suffering imposed on a people for no real reason.
I have included the image for the film itself, and the repetition
of the numbers, which became that person’s identity.
When I was a young girl I would sit by the sea staring at her
vastness with wonder and longing. The sea seemed to hold
the depths and wonder of what my young heart was seeking.
I recalled those feeling while watching Heaven’s Mirror. Fado
music embraces the longing one has for a profound passion.
In my art I wanted to portray that longing. The girl fearlessly
awaits her fate, not to be washed out to sea, but to hold fast
to a custom that sings in her heart and fuels her own passion.
Karina Nishi Marcus
In my connected paintings “12 Bar Blues: Key of Hope,” I
have sought to explore the atmosphere of transformation.
Regardless of outward circumstance and situation,
it is a human journey to hope in seeming hopelessness
that is the inspiration. Because the film—Music From the
Big House—is shot in black and white, I have limited my
palette to the strong contrasts of blue and yellow. The
two corresponding canvases represent the “call and response” song form of the Blues.
Kathleen McCallum
Jennifer Mygatt-Tatum
Joào de Brito
Touch is essential to our existence.
We need it. We crave it. We seek it.
When we have experienced it and it has been taken
from us
We feel pain. We are here to learn two essential
lessons.
To Love. To Forgive. The rest doesn’t matter.
Mother earth floats in the poisoned river. Coal
collects on her abdomen. Her fertile body depleted
by toxins in the water is frail. Grasping on to one
slim representative of what was once a vibrant
forest she hopes to stay afloat. With what little
strength her body holds, she hopes for the return
to a harmonious, respectful relationship between
man and nature. On Coal River.
is a Portuguese born painter who is known for his bright
colors and themes of nature. He incorporates his Portuguese
roots and is compared to the Fauvists. He is deeply
inspired, he says, by Fado music and we are privileged to
have him with us showing his work at the Heaven’s
Mirror screenings and in the Festival Hospitality Lounge.
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