Sharon Lockhart (b. 1964)

'A lot of the enjoyment I get when making work happens in the process, in my exchanges with the people I work with—both in front of the camera and behind. I do a lot of researching at the beginning of a project, and then I work with the film’s subjects so they understand my goals and in the end, the shoot is usually one or two takes on a single day. My research varies from one film to the next, depending on the project. In NO, I researched farms, farmers, growing and harvest cycles in rural Japan as well as avantgarde Ikebana and landscape painting' S. Lockhart.