CNYPG
welcomes filmmaker Sharon Lockhart
with her new film
PINE FLAT.
CNYPG
welcomes filmmaker
Sharon Lockhart
with
her new film
PINE FLAT.
March 25-28, 2007
Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, Sunday, March 25
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Monday,
March 26
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, Tuesday,
March 27
Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY, Wednesday,
March 28
"PINE FLAT is a stunning and intense contemplation of
children in nature. Deeply influenced by structuralism, Sharon Lockhart's first
feature after four previous short films (and dozens of photography exhibitions)
maintains her previous concerns for motionless camera, painterly compositions
and durations in real time.
PINE FLAT
consists of 12 ten-minute shots, divided by a 10-minute "intermission"
card backed by a child singing. The first six shots observe youths in solitude,
while the latter half-dozen consider kids in various groups, from a pair of
girls playing on a swing hanging from a giant oak, to two young couples making
out in a sea of sun-drenched wheatgrass.
Only the title hints at a specific locale, which is around the Pine Flat Lake
area in the western Sierra Nevada. A map location is beside the point, though,
since the natural landscapes provide a primordial, timeless majesty sure to
make this one of Lockhart's most durable works." -Robert Koehler, Variety
Sharon Lockhart
is a visual and film artist living in Los Angeles. Since 1993, her work has
been exhibited and screened at The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; Wako
Gallery in Tokyo; The MAK-Austrian Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna; and New
York's Barbara Gladstone Gallery, among other spaces.
Lockhart’s latest film, PINE FLAT, and accompanying photographs
have been exhibited at the Sala Rekalde in Spain, the Walker Art Center, and
the Fogg Art Museum, and screened at the Sundance Film Festival (2006). Lockhart
is the recipient of fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation (2001), the Rockefeller
Foundation (2000), and the Asian Cultural Council (1996). She has been awarded
residencies in Berlin and Stuttgart, Germany and Ibigari, Japan. She received
her Master of Fine Arts degree from the College of Design in Pasadena.
Sharon Lockhart, PINE FLAT, 2005,16mm, color, 137 minutes.