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

NŌ, 16mm, 32 min, 2003

EVENTIDE, digital, 30 min, 2022 landscape painting. As Lockhart has explained, the film “highlights a relationship to nature and farming that is somewhat contrary to the overly mechanized large-scale agribusiness prevalent in the United States.”

In what is both a culmination and a departure, Sharon Lockhart’s latest film, EVENTIDE (2022), is a meditative, non-narrative long shot that uses choreography to explore landscape, communal relations, solitary searching, psychic endurance, and the play of light moving through darkness. An astounding number of stars emerge bright in the dusking sky, blazing as a distant corollary to the growing constellation of roving bodies scanning the rock-strewn beach by cell phone light for what we do not know. The streaking of shooting stars and gliding of satellites throws the otherwise measured pace into relief. Shot on the Swedish coast with a close-knit group of friends Lockhart has been involved with for years, EVENTIDE is concerned with grieving and the future.—Sarah

Lehrer-Graiwer

Sharon Lockhart (1964) is a photographer, sculptor, and filmmaker born in Norwood, Massachusetts. She received a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute (1991) and an MFA from Art Center College of Design (1993). She has completed 15+ films since 1997 which have been exhibited at festivals and museums around the world, including solo exhibitions at Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Gladstone Gallery, Blum & Poe, Bonniers Konsthall, The Power Plant, Baltimore Museum of Art, Venice Biennale, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Hammer Museum, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, and Walker Art Center. Her films have screened at venues including REDCAT, Viennale, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berlinale, Jeu de Paume, Cineteca Madrid, Image Forum, Toronto International Film Festival, and Sundance Film Festival. Her work is in permanent collections of institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, Getty Foundation, Tate Modern, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Yokohama Museum of Art. Radcliffe (2007–08), Guggenheim (2001) and Rockefeller (2000) Fellowships. Herb Alpert Award (2015). Lives in Los Angeles, California.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 11 7:45PM

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION 7

JEAN-MARIE STRAUB

DANIÈLE HUILLET

MICHAEL SNOW

MIKE STOLTZ

MORGAN QUAINTANCE

BEN RUSSELL

THE CAPITOL THEATRE

PRESENTING PARTNERS:

CINEMA LAMONT AND CANADIAN FILMMAKERS DISTRIBUTION CENTRE.