We are thrilled to welcome acclaimed filmmaker Sharon Lockhart to the Center for Ethnographic Media Arts as part of our Visiting Artist Series. Join us Friday, January 31st, for a screening and Q&A of her film EVENTIDE, followed by a workshop led by Sharon Lockhart.

EVENTIDE

A film by Sharon Lockhart

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.

Sharon Lockhart in-person with a Q&A to follow the film.

January 31st, 2025
Doors at 10:30 AM, film begins at 11:00 AM.

Runtime 34 min.

Norris Cinema Theater
3507 Trousdale Pkwy Los Angeles, CA 90007

FREE ADMISSION. OPEN TO ALL USC STUDENTS, FACULTY, STAFF, ALUMNI, AND THE GENERAL PUBLIC.

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This event is co-sponsored by USC Center for Ethnographic Media Arts and USC School of Cinematic Arts.