Direction: Laida Lertxundi
The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Laida Lertxundi. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.
Cry When It Happens (S)
2010 · Movie · 13 min. · United States
Direction Laida Lertxundi
Cast Lindsey Hoffmann · Beau Johnson · Laura Merando · Albert Ortega
Plot 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 California. Here, we discover...
7.3
109 votes
7.3
109 votes
Footnotes to a House of Love (S)
2007 · Movie · 13 min. · United States
Direction Laida Lertxundi
Cast Sandy Ding · Eliza Douglas · Laura Merando · Sally Oviatt
Plot 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 create...
6.9
118 votes
6.9
118 votes
Utskor: Either/Or (S)
2013 · Documentary · 7 min. · Norway
Direction Laida Lertxundi
Plot In the town of Utskor in the region of Bø, northern Norway, we find memories of a political past intertwining with domestic, familial moments during the midnight sun. (LL)
6.9
79 votes
6.9
79 votes
My Tears Are Dry (S)
2009 · Movie · 4 min. · United States
Direction Laida Lertxundi
Cast Tanya Rubbak · Laura Steenberge
Plot 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 beautiful outside....
6.9
73 votes
6.9
73 votes
The Room Called Heaven (S)
2012 · Documentary · 11 min. · United States
Direction Laida Lertxundi
Plot Laida Lertxundi's intimate composition of intrinsically cinematic human actions. The locations, sunlight and snippets of music evoke a mysterious emotion that resounds in every image during the exact length of...
6.9
96 votes
6.9
96 votes
We Had the Experience but Missed the Meaning (S)
2014 · Documentary · 8 min. · United States
Direction Laida Lertxundi
Plot Crossing desert and sea, screen and page, between Los Angeles and San Diego, and a moment in a story by Adolfo Bioy Casares.
6.8
53 votes
6.8
53 votes
Live to Live (S)
2015 · Documentary · 11 min. · United States
Direction Laida Lertxundi
6.8
129 votes
6.8
129 votes
025 Sunset Red (S)
2016 · Movie · 14 min. · United States
Direction Laida Lertxundi
Cast Emilio Luarca · Ren Ebel · Forouzan Safari · Kane Lafia
Plot Laida Lertxundi continues her exploration of the American West with the intimately scaled 025 Sunset Red, which folds in autobiography as she looks back to her parents' radical activism in...
6.7
113 votes
6.7
113 votes
Words, Planets (S)
2018 · Documentary · 11 min. · Spain
Direction Laida Lertxundi
Plot Shot in Cuba and California, extends from the filmmaker's twin interests in landscapes and portraiture by incorporating fruit, Wong Kar-wai, Raúl Ruiz, cacti, the words of Lucy Lippard and R.D...
6.4
74 votes
6.4
74 votes
A Lax Riddle Unit (S)
2011 · Documentary · 6 min. · Spain
Direction Laida Lertxundi
Plot In a Los Angeles interior, moving walls for loss. Practicing a song to a loved one. A film of the feminine structuring body.
6.3
75 votes
6.3
75 votes
6.0
48 votes
Autofiction (S)
2019 · Documentary · 14 min. · Spain
Direction Laida Lertxundi
Plot Autoficción (Self-fiction) sets up a game between two genres of film in a tense relationship with each other, direct film and fictional film, drawing on the style of Agnès Varda...
5.6
82 votes
5.6
82 votes
Inner Outer Space (S)
2021 · Movie · 16 min. · Spain
Direction Laida Lertxundi
Cast Helena Estrela · Ren Ebel · Mariana Sánchez Bueno · Unai Ruiz Ameztoy
Plot A group of non-professional actors develops a series of sensory exercises including telepathic conversations, going for walks with their eyes covered and plein air drawing in the sea and mountain...
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In a Nearby Field (S)
2023 · Documentary · 18 min. · Spain
Direction Laida Lertxundi
Plot A man, a woman and their young daughter live together in an apartment in the Basque Country. Domestic chores and everyday gestures are superimposed onto lush, green landscapes. The filmmakers...
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Affirmation (S)
2020 · Documentary · 8 min. · Spain
Direction Laida Lertxundi
Cast Rosi Braidotti
Plot 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 recognition of our reciprocal...
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