Lunch Break

Artist and filmmaker Sharon Lockhart is known for creating beautiful, meditative films that incorporate subtle movement and a static, photographic gaze to examine her subjects. In this daring pair of new works, Lunch Break and Exit, Lockhart explores a new approach, an insisting sense of motion that produces more of what might be described as a photographic experience. In Lunch Break, the camera is entirely untethered, slowly moving in a single tracking shot through a long corridor where workers are enjoying their lunch hour at the Bath Iron Works, a massive shipyard in Maine. In Exit, the frame constantly fills with teeming workers as they head home after a long day’s work.Lunch Break and Exit are examples of Lockhart’s timely new film and photographic series about the present state of U.S. labor. The organic rhythm of workers in the shipyard receives a lyrical examination at a juncture in American economic history that may well make such scenarios obsolete. As viewers, we must completely surrender conventional narrative expectations and let ourselves be transported into the atmosphere and idiosyncratic details of life at the shipyard. We develop a sense of comfort and sentimental camaraderie with the workers as they enjoy restful moments amidst productive labor. When the final frame passes the shutter, we have become so enmeshed with shipyard life that we don’t want it to end.
CAST

Sharon Lockhart - Sharon Lockhart received her MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena in 1993. She has been a Radcliffe fellow, a Guggenheim fellow and a Rockefeller fellow. Her films and photographic work have been widely exhibited at international film festivals and in museums, cultural institutions, and galleries around the world. She is currently an associate professor at USC's Roski School of Fine Arts.

Screenings:

Fri. Jan 16 2:30 p.m. - LUNCH16PA Prospector Square Theatre, Park City
Sat. Jan 17 4:30 p.m. - LUNCH17BA Broadway Centre Cinemas IV, SLC
Wed. Jan 21 9:15 p.m. - LUNCH214N Holiday Village Cinema IV, Park City
Sat. Jan 24 3:00 p.m. - LUNCH24EA Egyptian Theatre, Park City