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Lockhart began by constructing a portrait studio in a small rural community, and extending an open invitation to local children, and then by immersing herself in their environment and noting the complexity of their interactions. Her highly descriptive, almost painterly portraits, taken over the course of several years, abjure narration for the pleasure of the gaze and the notion of temporality. The studio remains a constant, its black backdrop, cement floor and natural lighting a theatrical setting that allows the children to develop a different kind of relationship to the camera. Those stills stand in stark contrast to the pictorialism of a series showing the community’s majestic natural surroundings, and to the portraits on 16mm film that accompany them, which are both literally and figuratively moving.

1.52GB | 1h 08m | 640×480 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/0755BC8CE2E2B2A/pineflat1.avi
https://nitro.download/view/F021154E7738D90/pineflat2.avi

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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Sharon Lockhart’s new film, Pódworka, takes as its subject matter the courtyards of Lodz, Poland, and the children that inhabit them. A ubiquitous architectural element of the city, Lodz’ courtyards are the playgrounds of the children that live in the surrounding apartment buildings. Separated from the streets, they provide a sanctuary from the traffic and commotion of the city. Yet far from the overdetermined playgrounds of America, the courtyards are still very much urban environments. In six different courtyards throughout the city of Lodz, we see parking lots, storage units, and metal armatures become jungle gyms, sandboxes, and soccer fields in the children’s world. A series of fleeting interludes within city life, Pódworka is both a study of a specific place and an evocation of the resourcefulness of childhood. (lockhartstudio.com)

329MB | 31m 36s | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/4D055BBE2DFD439/Podworka_(Lockhart,_2009).mkv

Language(s):Some mumbled Polish
Subtitles:None needed

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Lunch Break features 42 workers as they take their midday break in a corridor stretching nearly the entire shipyard. Contrary to her previous films, the camera is untethered and, as it slowly moves down the corridor, we experience what was a brief interval in the workday schedule expanded into a sustained gaze. Lined with lockers, the hallway seems not only an industrial nexus but also a social one, its surfaces containing a history of self-expression and customization. Over the course of the lunch break we see workers engaged in a wide range of activities–reading, sleeping, talking–in addition to actually eating their midday meal. 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. (lockhartstudio.com)

1.68GB | 1h 23m | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/AD24CFCC91C7D19/Lunch_Break_(Sharon_Lockhart,_2008).mkv
or
https://nitroflare.com/view/25768D6E2EBAA07/Lunch_Break_(Sharon_Lockhart,_2008).part1.rar
https://nitroflare.com/view/5C6598CBBAEA299/Lunch_Break_(Sharon_Lockhart,_2008).part2.rar

Language(s):No Language
Subtitles:None

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Sharon Lockhart’s film Rudzienko was shot over two years in collaboration with the residents of the Youth Center for Sociotherapy in Rudzienko, Poland. Building on the relationship she established in 2009 with Milena, who later moved to the center, Lockhart conceived of a series of workshops to empower the young women. The group worked together to develop dialog and movements to be enacted on camera based on their collective activities. The resulting film features a range of conversations, from the philosophical to everyday teenage concerns, and depicts actions both theatrical and mundane that voice the girls’ rich humanity. The Polish-language film proposes an innovative approach to the relationship between image and language by offsetting the spoken conversations with their written translations. (lockhartstudio.com)

776MB | 52m 33s | 1920×1080 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/A49E6820752403B/Rudzienko_(Sharon_Lockhart,_2016).mkv

Language(s):Polish dialogue + English intertitles
Subtitles:None

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arsenal-berlin.de wrote:
Filmed in a middle school gymnasium in suburban Japan, GOSHOGAOKA takes as its ostensible subject the exercise routines and drills of a girls baskettball team. The film consists of six ten minutes takes, shot with a fixed camera at court level in which the various cadences of chanting voices and bodily movements digress into distinct studies. Taken together they construct a subtle and multi-layered social portrait, a portrait framed within a study of choreographed movement (the routines etc.) and therefore one in which documentary values soon become inseparable from aesthetic ones.

“A consequential linear construction of time is foundational to Sharon Lockhart’s cinematic work. In the films GOSHOGOAKA and NÔ (…) a staged sequence of events is developed, the action of which is reduced to everyday activities that exhibit no highpoint or dramatics, but that are determined by a beginning and an end. In neither of the films does the camera move. Without zooms, without pans, the action is completed within the fixed frame of the recording format. Persons and agents act within the image, enter the image, and it becomes clear that they also continue their actions outside of the frame. In 1996, Sharon Lockhart had a grant from the Asian Culture Council in the Ibaraki district north of Tokyo and could observe girls at basketball training for the film GOSHOGOAKO. An intensive collaboration developed, and together with the then ballet director of the Frankfurt Opera, Stephen Galloway, a choreography was rehearsed that had as its basis the various phases of training like warming up, walking and throwing, individual ball control, attack and defence, phases of rest and massage.”

921MB | 1h 4mn | 544×384 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/6BF694CC310B517/Sharon.Lockhart.Goshogaoka.1997-POENiR.avi

Language:occasional japanese sentences
Subtitles:unavailable. but not really needed

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