Event

CROSSROADS program 7

Sponsored by Ninkasi Brewing

Program sponsored by the Cultural Office of the Consulate General of Spain, San Francisco

Laida Lertxundi (b. Bilbao, 1981) makes films with non-actors that evoke external and internal spaces of intimacy. Through intricate arrangements of actions and sounds, her work explores how filmic moments can be imbued with emotional resonance. As her cinema questions how viewers' desires and expectations are shaped by cinematic forms of storytelling, it also searches for alternative ways of linking sound and music with found locales, constructed situations and quotidian environments. Shot within and around Los Angeles, her films map out a geography of landscapes transformed by affective and subjective states. Program includes a selection of Lertxundi's recent films and three short films which have been an inspiration.

SCREENING:
Farce Sensationelle! (2009) by Laida Lertxundi
Lemon (1969) by Hollis Frampton
Footnotes to a House of Love (2007) by Laida Lertxundi
My Tears Are Dry (2009) by Laida Lertxundi
All My Life (1966) by Bruce Baillie
Llora Cuando Te Pase/Cry When It Happens (2011) by Laida Lertxundi
A Lax Riddle Unit (2011) by Laida Lertxundi
Picture and Sound Rushes by Morgan Fisher

Gratitude for assistance in this program is extended to Garbiñe Ortega and to Alba Costa and Ana Morán of the Cultural Office of the Consulate General of Spain.

complete CROSSROADS 2012 festival pass available here ($50 general/$25 members)