Laida Lertxundi: Films & Influences
Courtisane presents:
LAIDA LERTXUNDI : FILMS AND INFLUENCES
Mon 13.02.2012
OFFoff Cinema, Gent (Belgium)
Courtisane is proud to present for the first time in Belgium a survey of the work of Laida Lertxundi (ES, 1981), one of the most talented young filmmakers working in the tradition of the avant-garde today. Lertxundi makes 16mm films with non-actors often shot within and around Los Angeles, where she’s been living for a number of years. Her
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