Double Tide

NOV 19 THU: 07:00pm; Hammer Screenings

: Sharon Lockhart Double Tide 2009 Film still. 16 mm film transferred to HD. 99 minutes. Courtesy of Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, Gladstone Gallery, New York, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin.

Artist and filmmaker Sharon Lockhart is known for creating beautiful, meditative films that incorporate subtle movement and a static, photographic gaze to examine her subjects. Her new film, Double Tide, documents the work of a female clam digger in the mudflats of coastal Maine and is filmed on the rare occasion in which low tide occurs twice within daylight hours—once at dawn and once at dusk. Expanding the focus of Lockhart’s recent films Lunch Break (2008) and Exit (2008), Double Tide creates a portrait of a relatively unseen and singular form of labor, taking as its subject a worker whose job is defined by the most elemental and unchanging forces of nature. (2009. 99 MIN., DIR. S. LOCKHART)

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