Laida Lertxundi



EVENTS

My Tears Are Dry
in the installation Peripheral Vision
curated by Ben Russell for
Berlin Documentary Forum 2
Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt
31 May - 3 June, 2012

Footnotes to a House of Love
in Friends with Benefits
with works by Johan van der Keuken
and George Kuchar, curated by Ben Rivers
Lux / ICA
Biennial of Moving Images, London

May 26th, 2:30 pm,
May 27th, 6pm, 2012

Farce Sensationalle,
Footnotes to a House of Love,
My Tears Are Dry,
Cry When It Happens and
A Lax Riddle Unit,
with works by Hollis Frampton,
Bruce Baillie and Morgan Fisher
San Francsico Cinematheque
May 20th, 5:30pm, 2012
Filmmaker in person

A Lax Riddle Unit
Migrating Forms
Anthology Film Archives, New York
May 19th, 7:30pm, 2012

A Lax Riddle Unit
Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
April 29th, 20:00, 2012
Filmmaker in person

Footnotes to a House of Love,
My Tears Are Dry,
Llora Cuando Te Pase/
Cry When It Happens
and
A Lax Riddle Unit
With works by Lewis Klahr
Echo Park Film Center
April 21st, 8 pm, 2012

Cry When it Happens
Images Film Festival, Toronto
Apr 16th, 9:15pm, 2012

Footnotes to a House of Love,
My Tears Are Dry,
Cry When It Happens and
A Lax Riddle Unit
Whitney Biennial
March 28th, 29th, and 31st, Hourly 12-5 pm
March 30th, Hourly 1-8 pm
April 1st, Hourly 12-3 pm
Filmmaker conversation with curator Thomas Beard:
April 1st, 4 pm, 2012
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

A Lax Riddle Unit
50th Ann Arbor Film Festival
March 30th, 7:15pm, 2012

Artist Lecture
Bennington College, Vermont
March 27th, 7:30pm, 2012

A Lax Riddle Unit
in That is the Dawn
with works by Ken Jacobs and
Ketevan Alexi-Meskhishvili
Galerie Gregor Staiger
Zürich
February 25th - March 31st, 2012

Footnotes to a House of Love,
My Tears Are Dry,
Cry When It Happens and
A Lax Riddle Unit,
with works by Hollis Frampton,
Bruce Baillie and Morgan Fisher
Offoff Art Cinema, Ghent, Belgium
February 13th, 20:30pm, 2012

Footnotes to a House of Love
Off Limits
Madrid
January 24th, 20:30, 2012

A Lax Riddle Unit, (Los Angeles Premiere)
Cry When It Happens,
My Tears Are Dry and
Footnotes to a House of Love
Human Resources LA
January 20th, 8:00 PM, 2012
Filmmaker in person

A Lax Riddle Unit,
Cry When It Happens,
My Tears Are Dry and
Footnotes to a House of Love
Marfa Book Company
December 17th, 7:30 PM, 2011
Filmmaker in person

Cry When It Happens
Los Angeles Film Forum
49th Ann Arbor Film Festival Touring Program
December 11th, 7:30 PM, 2011

My Tears Are Dry
in A Spell to Ward off the Darkness
curated by Ben Rivers and Ben Russell
Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival
November 8th, 21:00, 2011

A Lax Riddle Unit,
Cry When It Happens,
My Tears Are Dry and
Footnotes to a House of Love
Mass Art Film Society
curated by Saul Levine
October 19th, 8 PM, 2011

A Lax Riddle Unit
premieres at New York Film Festival
Views of the Avant-Garde
October 8th, 1:45 PM, 2011 and
October 10th, 3:45 PM, 2011

Cry When It Happens
25fps Zagreb, Croatia
Competition Program 2, Reflection Road
September 21st, 20:00, 2011

Cry When It Happens
Cornell Cinema
Curated by Michael Robinson
September 13th, 7:15 PM, 2011

Farce Sensationelle!
From Ecstasy to Rapture
Fundacion Cinemateca Argentina, Buenos Aires
August 27th, 14:30, 17, 19:30 and 22, 2011

Cry When It Happens, My Tears Are Dry
and Footnotes to a House of Love
D21 Kunstraum Leipzig
Screening organized by Sarah Schipschack
August 12th, 21:00, 2011
Filmmaker in person

My Tears Are Dry
in Here, There and Between
curated by Tomonari Nishikawa
Uplink Factory, Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan
July 2nd, 7:30 PM, 2011

Cry When It Happens
Onion City Experimental Film and Video Festival
at Chicago Filmmakers, 5243 N. Clark Street
June 26th, 6:30 PM, 2011

Cry When It Happens
Edinburgh International Film Festival
Filmhouse 1, 88 Lothian Road, Edinburgh EH3 9BZ, UK
June 17th, 3:45 PM, 2011

Cry When It Happens
The Empty Globe curated by Amina Cain
with readings by Teresa Carmody and James Wagner
Pieter, Los Angeles
June 4th, 8 PM, 2011

Cry When It Happens
Migrating Forms
Anthology Film Archives, New York
May 29th, 3:15 PM, 2011

Cry When It Happens
San Francisco Cinematheque
Crossroads Festival Program 8: Playback
curated by Lauren Sorensen
Victoria Theater, May 15th 2:30 PM, 2011

My Tears Are Dry and Footnotes to a House of Love
in Venus, aka Lovers Rock
Thalia Hall, Chicago
April 24th, 7:30 PM, 2011

My Tears Are Dry
in Tapeless Melodies
Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn
April 23rd, 7:00 PM, 2011

Farce Sensationelle!
From Ecstasy to Rapture
Tate Modern, London
April 17th, 12 PM, 2011

Farce Sensationelle!
in program 5: Explorations / Métacinéma
From Ecstasy to Rapture
Musee Jeu du Paume, Paris
April 2nd, 17:00, 2011

Cry When It Happens
in West of Rome
Courtisane Film Festival, Belgium
March 31st, 13:30 and
April 2nd, 21:30, 2011

Long Live Our Love
Current Films by Michael Robinson,
Ben Russell and Laida Lertxundi
Los Angeles Film Forum
March 27th, 7:30 PM, 2011
Filmmakers in person

Cry When It Happens
49th Ann Arbor Film Festival
March 23rd, 9 PM, 2011
Filmmaker in person

Cry When It Happens and My Tears Are Dry
Dodge College of Film and Media Arts
Screening curated by Thom Andersen
March 3rd, 7 PM, 2011
Filmmakers in person

Footnotes to a House of Love
Punto de Vista, Pamplona, Spain
February 25th, 2011

Cry When It Happens
Portland International Film Festival
February 22nd, 2011
Filmmaker in person

Long Live Our Love
Current Films by Michael Robinson,
Ben Russell and Laida Lertxundi
North West Film Forum, Seattle
February 20th, 8 PM, 2011
Filmmaker in person

Cry When It Happens
Wexner Center for the Arts
February 16th, 7:00 PM, 2011

Cry When It Happens
International Film Festival Rotterdam
January 27th and 31st, 2011
Filmmaker in person

Farce Sensationelle!
Toronto IFF Cinematheque
January 26th, 7:00 PM, 2011

My Tears are Dry
Museum of Fine Arts Houston
January 15th, 7:00 PM, 2011

My Tears Are Dry
New Media Arts Festival
Hong Kong Space Museum
December 12th, 9:00 PM, 2010

Footnotes to a House of Love
Cinema Project
Portland, Oregon
December 7th and 8th, 7:30 PM, 2010

My Tears Are Dry
Los Angeles Film Forum
November 21st, 7:30 PM, 2010

My Tears Are Dry
Screening at Recent Spanish Experimental Cinema: Inner Geography Curated by Garbiñe Ortega
Pacific Film Archive Theater
2575 Bancroft Way, Berkeley, California, USA
filmmaker in person
November 10th, 7:30 PM, 2010

Cry When It Happens / Llora Cuando Te Pase
at New York Film Festival Views of the Avant-Garde
at Film Society of Lincoln Center
October 3rd, 8:15 PM, 2010

Footnotes to a House of Love
Screening at Film Society of Lincoln Center, New York
as part of 21st Century Limited
July 25th, 6:30 and 9:15 PM, 2010

Footnotes to a House of Love and My Tears Are Dry
playing with Thom Andersen's premiere of
Get Out of the Car as part of Don't Knock the Rock,
at Cinefamily, Los Angeles
August 19th, 8:00 PM, 2010

My Tears Are Dry
Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit
June 5th, 8:00 PM, 2010

When it was Blue
by Jennifer Reeves
Curated by Laida Lertxundi for:
Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona
June 27th, 2010

Artist presentation at MommyMommy
June 5th, Los Angeles, CA

Farce Sensationelle!
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid
and Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona
May 23rd, 6:30 PM, CCCB

Del Extasis al Arrebato: 50 Anos del Otro Cine Espanol
organized by Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL
April 22nd-25th, 27th, and 28th, 2010

My Tears Are Dry
Annual Transmodern Festival
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MA
April 15th-18th, 2010

Del Extasis al Arrebato: 50 Anos del Otro Cine Espanol
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
April 3rd-4th, 10th-11th, 17th-18th, 2010

My Tears Are Dry
Images Film Festival, Toronto
April 1st-10th, 2010

My Tears Are Dry
Ann Arbor Film Festival
Ann Arbor, MI
March 23rd, 8:15 PM, 2010

The Anchorage
by C. W. Winter and Anders Edstrom
Curated by Laida Lertxundi for:
Centre de Cultura Contemporanea de Barcelona
March 21st, 2010

RECENT FILMS


A Lax Riddle Unit
2011, 6min, 16mm


Cry When it Happens / Llora Cuando Te Pase
2010, 14 min, 16mm


My Tears Are Dry
2009, 4 min, 16mm


Footnotes to a House of Love
2007, 13 min, 16mm


Farce Sensationelle
2009, 2.5 min, 35mm


CURATING


Long Live Our Love
Recent films by Michael Robinson, Ben Russell and Laida Lertxundi
at Los Angeles Filmforum and North West Film Forum, Seattle


When it was Blue
USA, 2008,
16mm Double Projection, 68 min
by Jennifer Reeves


Ruhr
USA, 2010, HD, 121min
by James Benning


The Anchorage
Sweden/USA, 2009, 35mm, 87min
by C. W. Winter and Anders Edstrom




ETC

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San Francsico Bay Guardian, Max Goldberg

Film Society of Lincoln Center, Whitney Biennial

Jury Award, Ann Arbor Film Festival 2012

Whitney Museum of American Art: 2012 Biennial

Video Interview with Curators Ed Halter and Thomas Beard

Audio Guide: Whitney Biennial 2012

'Film in Spotlight at the Whitney Biennial', artinamericamagazine.com

Reverseshot.com: A Lax Riddle Unit review by Genevieve Yue

A Lax Riddle Unit review by Leo Goldsmith for notcoming.com

Llora Cuando Te Pase / Cry When It Happens wins Best Short Form Work at Migrating Forms 2011

From Ecstasy to Rapture reviewed in Artforum.com

Published Los Ãngeles sin Hollywood essay on Thom Andersen’s film Get Out of the Car and the city of Los Angeles, Bostezo. Revista de Arte y Pensamiento, 2012.

Review by Steffen Georgi for Leipziger Volkszeitung, Leipzig, Germany

ARC Grant Recipient 2011

Laida Lertxundi's work is discussed in the documentary:
FRAGMENTOS para una historia del otro cine español, with other artists such as Iván Zulueta, Salvador Dalí, Luis Buñuel, Jose Antonio Sistiaga, Oriol Sánchez and Pedro Almodóvar premiered at Sitges Film Festival, October 2010 and to be released in Televisión Española.

Tom Berman Award for Most Promising Filmmaker, Ann Arbor Film Festival 2010

Film Comment's 25 Filmmakers for the 21st Century: A Decade in the Dark: Avant-Garde Film and Video 2000-2009

CinemaScope Decade in Review

Del Extasis al Arrebato: 50 Anos del Otro Cine Espanol
From Ecstasy to Rapture: 50 years of Alternative Spanish film is a series of screenings that are now traveling internationally. Farce Sensationelle! is included in the program.
General information
DVD distribution

Grand Prize of Basque Cinema, 2007

53rd Robert Flaherty Film Seminar — Fellowship recipient, 2007

Maya Deren, Film Award, Bard College 2003