Shot in southern california, laida lertxundi s work plays with the language of film by arranging fragmentary narratives against mysterious landscapes. Here, we discover a restrained psychodrama of play, loss, and the transformation of everyday. Apr 30, 2018 this pin was discovered by lisa armstrong. Laida lertxundi whitney museum, american art, outdoor. Cry when it happens llora cuando te pase 2010 a lax riddle unit 2011 the room called heaven 2012 utskor. Lertxundi returns again and again to visions of drifting clouds, that profoundly cinematic motif that interrupts solidity and permanence in favor of capricious transformation. Cry when it happens with wanda ica, london may 2nd, 6. Footnotes to a house of love, 2007 are scheduled for march 28 through april 1, every hour starting at noon friday at 1 pm. The first laida lertxundi film i saw my tears are dry 2009, at the 2012 whitney biennial caught my attention with its use of hoagy landss heartcrushing 1961 soul ballad of the same name. It serves as an anchor for this traversal through the natural expanse of california. Last day to watch cry when it happens by laida lertxundi on vdrome. Museum of the moving image, new york june 1st, 2pm, 2019. From 30th october all tabakalera s activities will end at 21. Last day to watch cry when it happens by laida lertxundi.
The screening includes a body of short films made between 2007 and 2016. At the same time the building will close its doors from monday to sunday. This session includes her most recent films and a selection of works. Laida lertxundi builds her cinema from shared experiences with friends and acquaintances. Its tempting to romanticize the continuities between lertxundi s life and work. By intercutting these testimonies with a civil rights rally, lertxundi is. The program, titled landscape plus, includes four additional works. We had the experience but missed the meaning 2014, the room called heaven 2012, and cry when it happens 2010. Late admittance is strongly discouraged, so please arrive early.
Oct 15, 2012 outmoded technologies like boomboxes and sd video monitors become compositional props set amidst breathtaking landscapes in cry when it happens 2010. In putty hill, matt porterfields keenly observed portrait of young people in a baltimore suburb coming together in the wake of a friends death, the actors play versions of themselves, dramatizing their plights and pleasures in the service of fiction im interested in regular teenagers in. Cry when it happens llora cuando te pase 2010 a lax riddle unit 2011 the room called heaven 2012. Cornell cinema has been proudly presenting artist films and experimental cinema since its inception, often with filmmakers visiting to discuss their work.
Lertxundi makes 16mm films with nonactors often shot within and. Laida lertxundi in conversation with thomas beard whitney. The cinema of laida lertxundisunday, february 10 20, 18. Cry when it happens is an allegory wrapped in themes of discovery, longing and looking, positive upward movement, with heavymetal themes of molten transformation at core. Cry when it happens 2010 directed by laida lertxundi. Pastebin is a website where you can store text online for a set period of time. With her friends and classmates she shared music, roadtripped, and shot film in the.
Her work is intrinsically and inextricably connected to the california landscape and psyche. Easily share your publications and get them in front of issuus. Five short films by laida lertxundi walker art center. This session includes her most recent films and a selection of works in 16 mm by. Llora cuando te pase cry when it happens, 2010 16mm film, color, sound. As in many of lertxundi s films, music gives the domestic space it depicts a heavy charge that balances the pleasures of pop with a reflexive. Well be hanging out at the space from 46pm, and screening lertxundi s recent film words. Issuu is a digital publishing platform that makes it simple to publish magazines, catalogs, newspapers, books, and more online. Inventing the future, medinas second feature, is adapted fr. Autofiction, the first of basqueorigin artist lertxundis films ive seen.
Working in 16mm film, lertxundi combines filmic records of people. Born in bilbao, spain, she attended bard college and later the california institute of the arts to study filmmaking. Laida lertxundi is an artist from bilbao whose 16mm films primarily explore the. Jun 18, 2018 cry when it happens llora cuando te pase laida lertxundi, 2010 the monitors also insert a new image into the image of the film, collapsing two images and spaces into a single one, something lertxundi also does through superimposition and projection. Mar 20, 2012 screenings of laida lertxundi s films a lax riddle unit, 2011. Here, we discover a restrained psychodrama of play, loss, and the. Laida lertxundi is an artist, filmmaker and professor of fine arts based in the united states and the basque country, spain. Based on the novel by warren miller about a teenager navigating the violent turf wars. Landscape refers to real places, documented on film, evoking their context and history. My films are made with people, landscapes and sounds, and employ a fragmentary approach to editing, in which cinematic forms of storytelling are replaced by a focus on. Laing and extracts from the novel i seeyou mean by the art critic lucy lippard. Before we can figure out whats happening, we are presented with short. Laida lertxundi prefers to work with nonactors as well, though the narrative of cry when it happens only flirts with legibility, pr.
Kb i was thinking that the sounds of people speaking and reading were so different than the music played through the films, but really its the same in terms of sound. Laida lertxundi 2015 fellowship for visual artists. May 07, 2018 this evening may 7, redcat is presenting the world premiere of words, planets 2017, a new 16mm film by calarts alumna laida lertxundi filmvideo mfa 07. Lertxundi s films present us with enigmatic landscapes and inscrutable characters whose relationships to one another are made suspect by her idiosyncratic use of sound and music. But frequently, as in cry when it happens 2010, this specificity is offset by periodic departures into the uncertainty of the sky. Laida lertxundi makes the most photographed city in the world seem strange, almost uncanny. Learn about our efforts toward supporting and building a diverse community. The nonactor, a historical survey spanning over 40 films, begins. Last day to watch cry when it happens by laida lertxundi on.
Barbara lodens wanda 1970 and laida lertxundis cry when it happens 2010. Halter and thomas beard, the cocurators of the film program of the 2012 biennial, discuss the work of biennial artist laida lertxundi. Laida lertxundi monographic book with mousse publishing and fluent, edited by alex alonso diaz, with essays. Second floor shot in southern california, laida lertxundi s work plays with the language of film by arranging fragmentary narratives against mysterious landscapes. Laidas films carry music that will stick with you afterward. Laida lertxundi projection and presentation of the book.
She discusses her filmmaking with thomas beard, cocurator of the 2012 biennials film and video program. Cry when it happens llora cuando te pase laida lertxundi, usa, 2010, 16mm, 14m. Shell also be in conversation with thomas beard, cocurator of the biennial. Lertxundi was also recognizable from her work, though more as a felt presence than a person seen. Laida lertxundi is best known for her beautiful and enigmatic 16mm films, which bring together ideas from conceptual art and structural film with a radical, embodied, feminist perspective. Aug 04, 2017 cry when it happens 2010 opening upon the image of two people, lying back to back, touching. World premiere of words, planets by laida lertxundi at redcat. Laida lertxundi school of the art institute of chicago. Laida lertxundi landscape plus camden arts center february 12th, 79pm, 2020.
The enigmatic cinema of laida lertxundi resists easy. Dossier laida lertxundi by galeria marta cervera issuu. For this program, lertxundi weaves together her own pieces. With lindsey hoffmann, beau johnson, laura merando, tanya rubbak. Footnotes to a house of love 2007 intimately captures the daytoday activities that fill and surround a dilapidated desert house. Mar 28, 2012 llora cuando te pase cry when it happens, 2010 16mm film, color, sound. Inventing the future, medinas second feature, is adapted from a book of the same name by nick srn. Music appears across the interiors and exteriors and speaks of limitlessness and longing. Landscape plus, laida lertxundi monographic book with mousse publishing and fluent. Plus refers to the principle of field recording applied to the entirety of the process. Here, we discover a restrained psychodrama of play, loss, and the transformation of everyday habitats. Oct 20, 2014 still from cry when it happens llora cuando te pase, 2010, directed by laida lertxundi. In putty hill, matt porterfields keenly observed portrait of young people in a baltimore suburb coming together in the wake of a friends death, the actors play versions of themselves, dramatizing their plights and pleasures in the service of fiction.
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