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LUNCH BREAK

fotoSharon Lockhart | USA 2008 | 84 min.

Material: 16mm
Format: BluRay
Original language: no dialogues

Camera: Richard Rutkowski
Music: Becky Allen, James Benning

Production: Lockhart Studio, Los Angeles Print/Sales: Arsenal Berlin

 

 

Over the last 15 years Sharon Lockhart has made films and photographs that frame moments of everyday life while exploring the subtle relationships between the two media. Lockhart's latest films and photographic series describe a specific place and time: Maine's Bath Iron Works at the start of the 21st century. Lockhart spent the last year looking at the lives of workers in the historic shipyard and each project examines a different element of their everyday experience.

Lunch Break features 42 workers as they take their midday break in a corridor stretching nearly the entire shipyard. The camera slowly moves down the corridor, we experience what was a brief interval in the workday schedule expanded into a sustained gaze. The soundtrack is a composition designed in collaboration with composer Becky Allen and filmmaker James Benning, in which industrial sounds, music, and voices slowly merge and intertwine. Together, picture and sound provide an extended meditation on a moment of respite from productive labor.

 

Sharon Lockhart was born in Norwood, Massachusetts, in 1964. She studied in California, at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been displayed at numerous group and solo shows around the world, and her films have been screened in the United States, Europe and Japan. She is currently an associate professor at the Roski School of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

Films: 2009 Double Tide (UNDERDOX 05), Podwórka (UNDERDOX 05) | 2008 Lunch Break, Exit | 2005 Pine Flat | 2003 No | 1999 Teatro Amazonas | 1997 Goshogaoka | 1994 Khalil, Shaun, A Woman Under the Influence

 

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