This premiere screening and sidebar is presented in conjunction with Harvard University Art Museum’s exhibition, Sharon Lockhart: Pine Flat. The exhibition will take place at the Sackler Museum from August 26 through November 19.  

The screening is accompanied by The Untutored Eye: A Sidebar to Sharon Lockhart’s Pine Flat, a petite series of two short and three feature-length films places a global lens upon the experience of childhood. As in much of the artist Sharon Lockhart’s work, one discovers in each of these films that the more particularized the portrayals, the more universal the impact. There is as well an uncanny sense that the simplicity and exuberance of the young subjects (Apu, Ahmad, Sili, Martin) has had a significant impact upon the mode of representation—as if the “untutored eye” of childhood had shaped the mise-en-scene of the films. This series was curated by Bruce Jenkins and Sharon Lockhart.