PRESS RELEASE
THE HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE PRESENTS
DOUBLE TIDE BY SHARON LOCKHART
September 17
CAMBRIDGE, MA: The Harvard Film Archive is pleased to present DOUBLE TIDE BY SHARON LOCKHART on MONDAY SEPTEMBER 17 with the filmmaker in person.
Special Event Tickets $12
Sharon Lockhart in Person
Double Tide
Monday September 17 at 7pm
Offering a poetic counterpoint to her earlier factory diptych, Lunchbreak (2008) and Exit (2008), Sharon Lockhart returned to Maine and her abiding interest in American labor in her exquisite and meditative Double Tide, a portrait of a clam digger hard at work on the day of an ultra-rare occurrence – two daytime low tides, at dawn and dusk. Lockhart’s roots in photography and structuralist cinema intertwine as she follows the transforming landscapes of the misty morning and the quiet close of day, with the solitary figure of the clam digger, a poignant emblem of New England’s slowly fading historic industries. Also exhibited as a two channel video installation, Double Tide is a meditative expansion and enrichment of the ideas of “stillness” and landscape that remain important thematic constants of Lockhart’s oeuvre. The Harvard Film Archive is pleased to welcome back Sharon Lockhart who will be joined by the subject of her film, clam digger Jen Casard.
Directed by Sharon Lockhart
US 2009, digital video, color, 99 min
http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2012julsep/double.html
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Harvard Film Archive
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(617) 495-4700
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General Admission Tickets $9, $7 Non-Harvard Students, Seniors, Harvard Faculty and Staff. Harvard students free
Special event tickets (for in-person appearances) are $12.
Tickets go on sale 45 minutes prior to show time. The HFA does not do advance ticket sales.
