“Lunch Break” describes a specific place and time: Maine’s Bath Iron Works at the start of the 21st century. Director Sharon Lockhart spent the last year looking at the lives of workers in the historic shipyard and the film examines a single element of their everyday experience. “Lunch Break” features 42 workers as they take their midday break in a corridor stretching nearly the entire shipyard. As the camera 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 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 labour.
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Producer: Andrew Fierberg & Clay Russell Lerner | Director: Sharon Lockhart | Composer: Becky Allen | Production: SHARON LOCKHART STUDIO (665 Oleander Drive, Los Angeles, CA-90042, U.S.A.) | Sales agent: SHARON LOCKHART STUDIO (665 Oleander Drive, Los Angeles, CA-90042, U.S.A.) | Distributor: No Belgian distributor | Cast : Maurice Bedard, Todd Biswell, Doug Blair, Chris Bowie, Andrew Call, Ed Carter, e.a.
Colour – 83’ – HDCAM 1080i / 59.94 – no dialogue
Producer: Clay Russell Lerner | Director: Sharon Lockhart | Composer: – | Production: SHARON LOCKHART STUDIO (665 Oleander Drive, Los Angeles, CA-90042, U.S.A.) | Sales agent: SHARON LOCKHART STUDIO (665 Oleander Drive, Los Angeles, CA-90042, U.S.A.) | Distributor: No Belgian distributor | Cast : De werknemers van Bath Iron Works, in Bath, Maine
Colour – 41’ – Video -
