Laida Lertxundi Movies

Six women in Paris traverse the neon-soaked anxiety of the city after dark.

This film applies the six principles for composition delineated in ‘Opinions on Painting by the Monk of the Green Pumpkin’, written by...

Borrowing its title from a literary genre, the film acknowledges the indeterminacy of both fiction and the self. Noir elements are reduced to deadpan...

Two friends sketch the horizon somewhere in the Basque country, where the sky meets the mountain and the sea. Later, in a dark room, film reels from...

We live in convulsive, contradictory times that demand of us a new way of being in the world: an ethics of generosity and working together, and...

8 TOPAKETA is an ephemeral school and a collaborative 16 mm film project made in the mountains of the Basque Country based on a series of open-ended...

2004 Spanish experimental short

American plains and high altitudes assembled in a B-roll structure take us to a place of sounds*. Plans américains show color and temperature...

“The body, a space of production, creates structures for a film.”—Laida Lertxundi

A series of shots in a California desert landscape in which there is a play between on frame and off frame, sound and image. There is an effort to...

A man, a woman and their young daughter live together in an apartment in the Basque Country. Domestic chores and everyday gestures are superimposed...

Crossing desert and sea, screen and page, between Los Angeles and San Diego, and a moment in a story by Adolfo Bioy Casares.

Lertxundi’s first film since relocating to Spain from California in 2019 is a triptych composed of three independent and yet interrelated...

Los Angeles City Hall is reflected onto the window of the Paradise Motel. It serves as an anchor for this traversal through the natural expanse of...

In the town of Utskor in the region of Bø, northern Norway, we find memories of a political past intertwining with domestic, familial moments...

A film in the three parts of a dialectic. Hoagy Land's song is played and interrupted as guitar makes sound, two women, a bed an armchair, and the...

Laida Lertxundi continues her exploration of the American West with the intimately scaled 025 Sunset Red, which folds in autobiography as she looks...

In a Los Angeles interior, moving walls for loss. Practicing a song to a loved one. A film of the feminine structuring body.

The story of a beautiful young Russian violin virtuoso who arrives in New York in nineteen-thirteen and quickly falls in love with a demimondain, who...