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FOOTNOTES TO A HOUSE OF LOVE

Directed by Laida Lertxundi
United States, 2007
Avant-Garde, Short
  • 1313 minutes

Synopsis

A series of shots in a California desert landscape in which there is a play between on frame and off frame, sound and image. There is an effort to create the space of a story, without a story, by the use of real time and diegetic sound.

Synopsis

A series of shots in a California desert landscape in which there is a play between on frame and off frame, sound and image. There is an effort to create the space of a story, without a story, by the use of real time and diegetic sound.

Our take

A romantic yet melancholic idealism runs through Laida Lertxundi’s debut, in which young lovers abandon a crumbling cabin and physically embrace the beauty of the sun-drenched Californian desert. Documentation and artifice coalesce, as the landscape and the human form soften into an evocative whole.