Landscape Plus

Laida Lertxundi’s films are captivating and enigmatic. Nothing is shown directly, but is rather evoked as an unusual experience. Her films find their inspiration in actions and places of her own life, while offering a mysterious sense of loneliness and longing, that openly reflects and experiment with the medium of cinema itself. An evocative flow of emotions constitute the raw material of this ‘life-like cinema’ that doesn’t actually imitate life.

In Lertxundi words: “I experience a conflict coming from a tradition of filmmaking written and defined by men. I make films that depict, at their core, this conflict between form and feeling. Forms appear as neutral, organising permutations. There is feeling in the presence of desire, longing, and loss. There is loss in the translation of feeling to form, of one culture to another, and of an experience while filming to its representation on the screen.”

Battleship Potemkin

More than 90 years after its first screening, the Edison Studio collective of composers reinterprets the images of the Battleship Potëmkin through a soundtrack in which live music, voices, ambient sounds reveal the atmosphere, the senses and the secret rhythms of the masterpiece by Ejzenštejn.