The F.I.L.M. (Forum for Images and Languages in Motion) series welcomes photographer and filmmaker Sharon Lockhart on Sunday, March 25, at 2 p.m. in the Kirner-Johnson Auditorium. Currently teaching at the School of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California, Lockhart will screen her newest film Pine Flat, which has been described as a highly formalized meditation on adolescence in a rural California community. All F.I.L.M. events are free and open to the public.
Pine Flat is structured into 12 10-minute portraits of the town's children as they engage in everyday activities in natural settings (there's a 10-minute intermission after the first six). Lockhart's work summons a wide range of references to the history of art, including the genre scenes of Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin and the landscapes of Caspar David Friedrich.
This series is made possible by the Mary and Elihu Root Faculty Innovation Fund and the Office of the Dean of the College, and by the New York State Council on the Arts and by the Central New York Programmers Group. This particular event has also received support from the Kirkland Endowment.
