Laida Lertxundi

Laida Lertxundi

Director of 
IN A NEARBY FIELD

Laida Lertxundi is an artist and filmmaker who lives and works between the USA and the Basque Country. Combining conceptual rigor with sensual pleasure in a process she calls Landscape Plus, her films establish parallels between landscape and the body as centers of pleasure and experience. Her practice is collaborative in nature, aiming to actively deconstruct the hierarchies of a traditional film shoot through the free exchange of roles both behind and in front of the camera, and the staging of improvised gestures and spontaneous, collective activities in various natural environments. Lertxundi’s work is invested in landscape as both an artistic tradition and a particular set of regional characteristics, idioms and inhabitants — from the deserts of California to the dramatic mountains of her native Basque Country.

With the kind support of Accion Cultural Española.

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