Media City Film Festival 2023 Catalogue

A WORLD OF MOVEMENT: FILMS OF SHARON LOCKHART: Saturday, November 11, 2023 6:00 pm The Capitol Theatre, 121 University Ave. West, Windsor Pay What You Like admission Celebrated filmmaker and photographer Sharon Lockhart joins Media City Film Festival from Los Angeles to present a special selection of her films.

NŌ (2003) and Lockhart’s most recent film EVENTIDE (2022) are definitive works from the artist, representing a career of consistent engagement with some of contemporary cinema’s central preoccupations: the distinction between moving and still images, the tension between the “natural” and the staged, and above all the candid invitation to participate in concentrated acts of looking and listening.

Screening to mark the twentieth anniversary of its making, NŌ was originally inspired by the avant-garde practice of NŌ-no ikebana, a freestyle form of Japanese flower arranging. Filmed in a continuous take from a fixed camera angle, NŌ captures the precise movements of a Japanese farming couple, Masa and Yoko Ito, traversing horizontal fields of colour, and working the land as if covering the canvas in a living