On Site is a moving image series rooted in senses of place, focusing on contemporary and historic artists’ cinema. The series draws from a diversity of works that commonly recruits cinematic form to attend enduring and ephemeral environments.
April 25, Doors 6:30 Screening at 7:00 PM
Free
Eventide
Sharon Lockhart, 2022, 4K Video, 34 mins
In what is both a culmination and a departure, Sharon Lockhart’s latest film, Eventide (2022), is a meditative, non-narrative long shot that uses choreography to explore landscape, communal relations, solitary searching, psychic endurance, and the play of light moving through darkness. Locating drama in the real-time shift of evening fading into night, this is perhaps Lockhart’s most optical and painterly moving image to date, composing figures, scenography, and soundscape into allegory and abstraction. The artist’s investment in forms of dance in previous works is felt here too as the initial appearance of an individual slowly builds into a culture and a gathering. An astounding number of stars emerge bright in the dusking sky, blazing as a distant corollary to the growing constellation of roving bodies scanning the rock-strewn beach by cell phone light for what we do not know. The streaking of shooting stars and gliding of satellites throws the otherwise measured pace into relief. Shot on the Swedish coast with a close-knit group of friends Lockhart has been involved with for years, Eventide is concerned with the future and what it might hold. (Lockhart Studios)
Curated by David Dinnell, Ellen Ito, Jay Kuehner
David Dinnell is a film programmer currently living in Seattle. He is the former Program Director of the Ann Arbor Film Festival, Media City Film Festival and the Tacoma Film Festival. He has curated film programs for the Flaherty Film Seminar, The Bienal de la Imagen en Movimiento (Buenos Aires), UnionDocs Center for Documentary Art (NYC), Canyon Cinema 50, among others. He is co-founder and co-curator of Mur Murs, an ongoing Los Angeles-based series presenting artists and cinema.
Ellen Ito is an artist, programmer, and curator raised in the Lower Duwamish Valley. Current projects include the exhibition Soft Power, on view at TAM through September 2024. Ellen is the Curator of Special Projects at the Tacoma Art Museum.
Jay Kuehner is an independent film critic, curator, and educator based in the Pacific Northwest whose focus is on creative nonfiction and documentary practice. His work has appeared in Cinema Scope, Senses of Cinema, Film Comment, IndieWire and Sight and Sound.
Image caption:
Sharon Lockhart
EVENTIDE
2022
single-channel HD video installation (color/sound)
34:32 min.
© Sharon Lockhart, 2022
courtesy the artist, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, and Gladstone Gallery