Pine Flat, Sharon Lockhart, 2005, 135 min., 16mm
Image: Sharon Lockhart, Pine Flat (still), 2005; image courtesy BLUM & POE
Filmed over the course of three years in the Sierra Nevada foothills, Pine Flat explores the interactions of children with their local surroundings. A quiet intimacy between camera and subject develops as we watch the children play, read, hang out, and engage in other day-to-day activities.