PODWORKA (Courtyard)

Sharon Lockhart | USA/Poland 2009 | 32 min.

Material: 16mm
Format: BluRay
Original language: no dialogues

Camera: Richard Rutkowski
Music: Becky Allen, James Benning

Production: Lockhart Studio, Los Angeles Print/Sales: Arsenal Berlin

Podwórka, takes as its subject matter the courtyards of Lodz, Poland, and the children that inhabit them. A ubiquitous architec- tural element of the city, Lodz courtyards are the playgrounds of the children that live in the surrounding apartment buildings. A series of fleeting interludes within city life, Podwórka is both a study of a specific place and an evocation of the resourcefulness of childhood.

Sharon Lockhart was born in Norwood, Massachusetts, in 1964. She studied in California, at the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and at the San Francisco Art Institute. Her work has been displayed at numerous group and solo shows around the world, and her films have been screened in the United States, Europe and Japan. She is currently an associate professor at the Roski School of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

Films: 2009 Double Tide (UNDERDOX 05), Podwórka | 2008 Lunch Break (UNDERDOX 05), Exit | 2005 Pine Flat | 2003 No | 1999 Teatro Amazonas | 1997 Goshogaoka | 1994 Khalil, Shaun, A Woman Under the Influence

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