This Yucca Valley Film Festival will once again offer an art exhibit and show the selected pieces during the 3 days of the festival.
This showing will include local artists, out of state artists, and international artists, alongside with a selection of film posters in competition for “best movie poster”.
Some pieces will presented in person, some might will be showing digitally.
The opening of the art exhibit is Friday, Nov 10, at 6:30pm, at the Community Center in Yucca Valley.
LOCAL ARTISTS (SB County): submit by email.
ALL OTHER ARTISTS: submit on FilmFreeway.
ART PHOTOGRAPHY
DINO FILM SOUP
by Kate Ferguson
Kate Ferguson is a Los Angeles-based Filmmaker, Photographer, Writer, and Actor with a deep love of storytelling and all things art. She’s particularly fond of analog and often chooses to shoot on 35mm, 120, or Super 8 film.
Cabazon dinosaurs shot on 35mm film, which was souped with soap and heat to cause some gentle destruction.
I’ve been shooting film since I was a kid and hold it deeply in my heart. Love 35mm and 120 film. Especially if it’s expired or experimental. (I also shoot DSLR, when that’s more appropriate.)
My photographic work has been chosen an Official Selection at the Photography Awards by The TINCAN Magazine 2022, an Official Selection and showcased at New Jersey’s The One Minute Film Festival within the Northeast Film Festival 2022, and an Official Selection at California’s Beach Cities Inspirational Film Festival 2023.
STRONG ALLIES (choose)
by Heather Williamson
This coyote and I connected. We understood each other, yet we said nothing.
I have a great bond with the life out here, especially the coyotes. When I see them, my world stops -to be in their presence is awing. The same goes for when I hear them. I have numerous recordings of coyotes on my phone because I like to feel close to them. And if I feel some kind of way, I listen to my people and feel better. It’s painful to see any life suffering. This is coyote land. I wish we could live more respectfully and responsibly, accepting that. All that is true is rare and difficult.
Heather Williamson is a multifaceted artist based in the High Desert, CA, whose practice includes photography, filmmaking, writing, installation, music, and sound.
Her work (and her) is known for provoking thought and feeling. Invoking harmony -she is reality totality.
“My work allows me to feel something other than me, empowering me, seeing all things in everything. It delivers me from bondage, offering nothing. When I’m behind my work, no one knows the pain in my mind, but this pain gives way to understanding. When I no longer exist, I feel grounded in who I am. This is the process of standing. The practice of myself.”
I’m Timothy Brazzel, and I’m from Southern California, currently living in Riverside County. I’m a certified commercial drone pilot as of February 2022. I specialize in drone cinematography, videography/photography, and video editing.
White Rock Horse Rescue
by Hilary Sloane
Landers, a small town in the high desert has one gas station, a couple of restaurants currently closed, a spattering of dusty horse ranches on dirt roads, and residents that prize their privacy.
The White Rock Horse Rescue, the heroine of a modern-day novel, is where women and children are the majority, and life-worn people and animals join forces to heal and feel safe.
When I landed in Joshua Tree in 2008 with no idea of a career path I discovered new worlds of exploration. I picked up my camera and set off on the mission of discovery. It was then that I realized I wanted to be a documentary photographer and nothing else would fulfill me.
Stories enrich us.
They can make us better people, broaden our knowledge of the world, and encourage empathy.
MIXED MEDIA
The Collector, The Vault of Fun & Face Traveller
by Maria Lohayza
Some of Maria’s work was previously shown during the “Recycled Art” exhibit at the Hi-Desert Nature Museum in Yucca Valley.
Born in San Pedro CA, I have been a Coachella Valley resident for 48 years.
I have passion for all the arts. My motivation for my art is the faces I see. I see faces in everything. From stucco to rocks, liquid to burnt or fabric to structures in oorn space. I see faces.
I am soo moving from Desert Hot Springs to Yucca valley and I can’t wait to see the Town’s faces.
COMIC STRIP
Detective Benworth vs Billy Joe
by Ethan Ocampo.
Ethan has also made over about twenty-four original mini storyboard episodes with so many character designs of heroes and villains that led him to create two of his own cartoon universes staring an English Super soldier called Combat Blighty, revealing his alter ego name as Prescot, and a Scottish detective name Benworth. Lastly, Ethan has also created for both of his main major
characters attractive and loving girlfriends named Savannah and Emily, who join Prescot and Benworth in most of all their adventures.
Yucca Valley based artist and current CMC student, Ethan Ocampo’s art mediums are pen, pencil, color pencil, markers, and paper. His
special techniques are symbolism, exaggeration, labeling, analogy, and irony. His inspirations are the
all-time animator legends: Walt Disney, Chuck Jones, William Hannah, and Joe Barbera.
What he is
passionate about in his drawings is action, adventure, romance, and fashion in Great Britain from the
(1900’s-1950’s) period.
His grand biggest achievements by far is getting his artwork publicized three
times with Yucca Valley’s Hi-Desert Star, entering his Moon Light of the Desert chalk and glue artwork
into a Yucca Valley High School student art show at the Twenty-nine Palms Art Gallery and won (2 nd
Place) in (January 13, 2018).
MOVIE POSTER
The winning poster will be announced during the Award Ceremony on Sunday Nov 12, 7pm.
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