Películas
16mm, 5:30 min, color, sound, 2026
With Películas (Spanish for “films" or “movies"), Lertxundi continues her project of playfully deconstructing the filmmaking process, laying bare the parts that constitute a film and positing cinema as a social, collaborative, hand-made practice. Two friends sketch the horizon, somewhere in the Basque country where the sky meets the mountain and the sea. Later, in a dark room, film reels suggesting intimate moments (a pregnancy, family holidays, children playing) are projected onto a body that acts as screen. Originally conceived as an installation work, with props from the film and the film’s 16mm cans exhibited as well, Películas is here presented in a cinema setting for the first time.
(Open City, London, 2026)
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16mm, 5:30 min, color, sound, 2026
With Películas (Spanish for “films" or “movies"), Lertxundi continues her project of playfully deconstructing the filmmaking process, laying bare the parts that constitute a film and positing cinema as a social, collaborative, hand-made practice. Two friends sketch the horizon, somewhere in the Basque country where the sky meets the mountain and the sea. Later, in a dark room, film reels suggesting intimate moments (a pregnancy, family holidays, children playing) are projected onto a body that acts as screen. Originally conceived as an installation work, with props from the film and the film’s 16mm cans exhibited as well, Películas is here presented in a cinema setting for the first time.
(Open City, London, 2026)
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