Películas
16mm, on video, 5:30 min, 2024
Películas (film box)
Kodak cardboard box, film cans
box: 20,50 x 20,50x 15 cm
Film cans x 2: 18cm diameter
Películas exemplifies Lertxundis collaborative, deconstructivist approach to filmmaking, as well as her ongoing interest in landscape as both an artistic tradition and inhabited environment. In the film, we see two characters gazing at an odd, half-constructed horizon somewhere in the Basque Country. Later, they pack a series of objects, including some film canisters, into a box, wander in front of a projected film image, and jot down their private thoughts (ambidextrously). Forgoing text or discernable narrative, Lertxundi lays bare the cinematic device to form new paths of connection for the viewer, proposing a subtle, absorbing awareness of the film image beyond the constructed logic of linear storytelling. Props from the film are left in plain sight within the exhibition space, as if having made their way through the screen and into our physical realm.
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16mm, on video, 5:30 min, 2024
Películas (film box)
Kodak cardboard box, film cans
box: 20,50 x 20,50x 15 cm
Film cans x 2: 18cm diameter
Películas exemplifies Lertxundis collaborative, deconstructivist approach to filmmaking, as well as her ongoing interest in landscape as both an artistic tradition and inhabited environment. In the film, we see two characters gazing at an odd, half-constructed horizon somewhere in the Basque Country. Later, they pack a series of objects, including some film canisters, into a box, wander in front of a projected film image, and jot down their private thoughts (ambidextrously). Forgoing text or discernable narrative, Lertxundi lays bare the cinematic device to form new paths of connection for the viewer, proposing a subtle, absorbing awareness of the film image beyond the constructed logic of linear storytelling. Props from the film are left in plain sight within the exhibition space, as if having made their way through the screen and into our physical realm.
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