Laida Lertxundi

Laida Lertxundi

Cine español

CURTOCIRCUITO 2020: AUTOFICCIÓN DE LAIDA LERTXUNDI Y ARRAIS DO MAR DE ELISA CELDA

Por Mónica Delgado

Comento dos cortometrajes españoles vistos en la reciente edición del festival Curtocircuito, que va hasta el 11 de octubre, y que pertenecen a la sección competitiva Penínsulas, solo para trabajos de España y que grafican las tendencias actuales del cine-ensayo o no ficciones: Autoficción de Laida Lertxundi y O Arrais do mar de Elisa Celda.

READ MORE »
Film Festival Reports

TIFF 2018: WAVELENGTHS. THE GLASS NOTE & WORDS BY MARY HELENA CLARK, PLANETS BY LAIDA LERTXUNDI

By José Sarmiento Hinojosa

The crushing of lemons, a welcome parallel (an imagined parallel, to be honest) to the manipulation of the possibilities of cinema. Laida Lertxundi, as many other filmmakers in her camp without a proper formation in cinema, has achieved the freedom of a person who manipulates an object the first time it sees it without knowing what it is. This possibility, this immense advantage for the eye, has gave her particular brand of cinema a certain liminality between the discourse and the image, the object and the subject matter.

READ MORE »
Críticas

LIMA INDEPENDIENTE 2017. FRONTERAS DESTRUIDAS: PROGRAMA 1

Por José Sarmiento Hinojosa

El primer programa de la competencia “Fronteras Destruidas”, dedicado al cine de vanguardia en el marco del Festival Lima Independiente, nos confronta con cinco distintas propuestas que marcan distintas conversaciones acerca del tema del territorio (…)

READ MORE »
Courtisane

COURTISANE 2017: HOW DOES IT MEAN? – JACQUES RANCIÈRE AND DISSENT!

by Tara Judah

Courtisane, as a festival, far more than most, creates its fiction with all the skill and care that curation ought. The films are selected – not for their timeliness or premiere status, but for their ability to engage and provoke curiosity – and are shown in the hope of sharing something as simple yet powerful as “notes on cinema”. The notes, with all the hallmarks of great fiction, are quite simply an invitation to inquiry.

READ MORE »