The ICPA and the Film and Media Studies Program at Colgate University present James Benning and Sharon Lockhart

Over a nearly four-decade career, James Benning’s formally demanding films have contemplated both the passage of time, and the interface of humanity and the landscape. His work has been shown at festivals, museums and galleries around the world, including a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. He is also the recipient of numerous grants, including a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Sharon Lockhart’s practice encompasses both photography and filmmaking. Her films borrow the traditional fixed point of view of still photography, recording a finely tuned, deliberate, subtly crafted choreography as it unfolds before the camera. Formally beautiful and rigorous, her films and still images claim the use of duration as a cinematic principle supreme.

All screenings at 7:00 p.m., Golden Auditorium, Little Hall. Presented in person by the filmmakers. All events are free and open to the public.

March 23 “Ruhr ” 2009, 120 min., HD video by James Benning. “Ruhr” was the opening film at the Duisburg Film Festival in November 2009. This new film is commissioned by German television and is Benning’s first digital film after a long career as an artist who worked exclusively in 16mm.

March 24 “Lunch Break” 2008, 83 min., 35 mm transfer to HD video “Exit” 2008, 40 min., 35 mm transfer to HD video by Sharon Lockhart. “Lunch Break uses the cinematic apparatus to “track down,” literally, the precious, minute, humble signs of specific human existences, captured at such a quotidian level that we can’t help being moved to the core.” Senses of Cinema

March 25 “Double Tide” 2009, 80 min., 35mm transfer to HD video by Sharon Lockhart Double Tide studies a singular form of labor in a subtly changing landscape—a female clam digger in the midflats of South Bristol, Maine, on a day when low tide occurs twice— at dawn and at dusk.

March 26 “casting a glance” 2007, 80 min., 16mm by James Benning. In “casting a glance,” Benning studies Robert Smithson’s pioneering earthwork, Spiral Jetty (1970), one of the icons of modern art.

For further information please see http://www.cliffordgallery.org/fmst/BenningLockhart.pdf or contact Angela Kowalski at akowalski@colgate.edu (315) 228 6607

ICPA The Institute for the Creative and Performing Arts at Colgate University

The mission of the Institute for the Creative and Performing Arts at Colgate University is to support and promote excellence in the creative and performing arts, and to stimulate critical dialogue on the arts in the liberal arts context. The Institute encourages and supports projects that embody the broad vision and centrality of the arts, and that underscore the interdisciplinary, international and cross-cultural dimensions of creative and performing arts practice.

For further information on The Institute for the Creative and Performing Arts, please contact: DeWitt Godfrey, dgodfrey@mail.colgate.edu or visit http://artsinstitute.colgate.edu