Film program: Lunch Break (2008) by Sharon Lockhart

Sunday, July 20
6pm
Screening at Theatiner Filmkunst

In the context of their exhibition Romeo’s eyes, artists Simon Lässig and Vera Lutz have conceived an accompanying program of events, which they consider as equal to the works developed for the show. As part of this, they invited artist Sharon Lockhart to present her 2008 film Lunch Break.

The film focuses on a specific place and time: Maine’s Bath Iron Works at the beginning of the 21st century. Lockhart spent the year prior to filming looking at the lives of workers in the historic shipyard; the film examines a single element of their everyday experience. Lunch Break features forty-two workers as they take their midday break in a corridor stretching nearly the entire shipyard. The camera is untethered and, as it slowly moves down the corridor, we experience what was a brief interval in the workday schedule expanded into a sustained gaze. Lined with lockers, the hallway seems not only an industrial nexus but also a social one, its surfaces containing a history of self-expression and customization. Over the course of the lunch break we see workers engaged in a wide range of activities—reading, sleeping, talking—in addition to actually eating their midday meal. The soundtrack is a composition designed in collaboration with composer Becky Allen and filmmaker James Benning, in which industrial sounds, music, and voices slowly merge and intertwine. Together, picture and sound provide an extended meditation on a moment of respite from productive labor.

The screening is a collaboration with Theatiner Filmkunst and takes place at the arthouse cinema on Theatinerstraße 32, 80333 Munich.

To reserve your tickets, please follow this link: https://theatiner-film.de/movie/lunch-break-kooperation-mit-dem-kunstverein-muenchen