WINDWARD
Sharon Lockhart
Los Angeles Premiere
- Price
- $12 + $2 Convenience Fee*
- Genres
- Art, Film
- DATE
- SEP 30
- TIME
- WED, 8 PM
- RUNTIME
- Approx. 90 minutes
- COUNTRY
- USA
* Discounts available for REDCAT members, students & CalArts faculty and staff
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About
WINDWARD brings to life Fogo Island’s striking geological formations, unique climate, and austere beauty in the latest work by Sharon Lockhart. Filmed on the windswept northern face of the remote island off the coast of Newfoundland, the piece is organized by an unseen, persistent force—the breezes that descend uninterrupted from the Arctic. Organized as twelve short tableaus, WINDWARD depicts delicate portraits of local children as they play and move across the landscape: one flies a kite, others walk on stilts or dip in the calm sea at dusk. In scenes composed and choreographed for the camera, Lockhart draws attention to the young people’s inherited attunement to the environment. Through her lens, the tall grass, volcanic rocks, crashing waves, and weather patterns become essential elements in shaping a narrative of Fogo Island’s unique ecosystem and its residents’ profound connection to its rhythms.
A post-screening conversation with Sharon Lockhart will be moderated by Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer.
Windward presents a vision of humans both at peace — and of a piece — with natural landscapes
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Hyperallergic
WINDWARD is co-commissioned and co-produced by Shorefast/Fogo Island Arts, The Vega Foundation, and the National Gallery of Canada, with the support of The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery and Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity Courtesy the artist and neugerriemschneider, Berlin.
about the artists
Sharon Lockhart creates films that engage a radical relation to time and the politics of looking. Through durational structures and rigorous framing, her work challenges conventional hierarchies between viewer and subject, artist and collaborator. Rooted in long-term relationships and site-specific processes, Lockhart’s films cultivate a space of mutual regard—where observation becomes an act of solidarity, and slowness a form of resistance. Her practice foregrounds the subtle, often overlooked rhythms of labor and leisure, drawing attention to the social and bodily architectures that shape experience. In Lockhart’s work, time is not simply measured—it is inhabited, shared, and redefined. Lockhart’s films have been presented in the New York Film Festival, Vienna International Film Festival, FID Marseille, Berlin International Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival, among others. Her films have received numerous international recognitions, including the Prize for Best Short at Punto de Vista – International Documentary Film Festival of Navarra, Best Director at the Festival Internacional de Cine de la Provincia de Buenos Aires, and awards from Márgenes 14th International Film Festival Madrid and FID Marseille, where she received the Grand Prix d’Honneur. Lockhart is also the recipient of several prestigious fellowships and honors, including the Herb Alpert Award in the Arts, the Radcliffe Institute Fellowship at Harvard University, a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship in Filmmaking, and a Rockefeller Foundation Film/Video/Multimedia Fellowship. She has been the subject of solo exhibitions at international museums and institutions, including Guggenheim Museum Bilbao; Baltimore Museum of Art; Milwaukee Art Museum; Fondazione Fotografia Modena; Kunstmuseum Luzern; Bonniers Konsthall; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; TBA21; and The Jewish Museum, amongst others. In 2017, Lockhart represented Poland at the Biennale di Venezia. Lockhart lives and works in Los Angeles and is a professor at California Institute of the Arts.
Photo: Courtesy of Sharon Lockhart. Still from WINDWARD.
