Lockhart is internationally recognized for films and photographs that frame the quiet moments of everyday life while exploring the relationship between the two mediums. Her latest project, Pine Flat, is an intimate view of contemporary rural life that looks at a community's children in works using both formats. Recently on view at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Pine Flat project comprised a gallery installation of film loops and photographs as well as a feature-length 16mm film, which is what will be shown at Cornell Cinema. "With her fifth film, Pine Flat, the photographer/filmmaker returns to Sundance with an exquisitely crafted, penetrating, and intimate portrait of rural American childhood. Set in the foothills of the stunning Sierra Nevada, Pine Flat is a delectable series of observations of children in both their quiet and quirky solitude, as well as their awkward and rambunctious interactions with each other. Seasons come and go, the blush of innocence yields to exploration and conquest, and Lockhart's camera follows with an extraordinary sense of color, sound, and composition that permeates the senses and transports the viewer into the atmospheric world inside the film frame. Pine Flat extends a playful invitation to meditate on solitude, nature, and socialization, an invitation that is difficult to deny. You may even find it hard to walk out of the clever, filmic intermission! Alternately ticklish, amusing, comforting, and haunting, Pine Flat rewards the patient and open-minded viewer with a remarkable journey through a beautiful mountain landscape and the poignant moments of childhood." (Shari Frilot, Sundance Film Festival) Cosponsored with the Central New York Programmers Group (funded by NYSCA), the CCA, the Dept. of Art and the Rose Goldsen Lecture Series.
2006, color, 2 hours 17 minutes, USA