FILM

“We had the experience but missed the meaning” is a line from a T.S. Eliot poem. However, the inspiration for Lertxundi’s most recent work – which also exists as a double screen film installation – is a short story by Argentinian writer Adolfo Bioy Casares: Todos los hombres son iguales (All Men Are Equal or All Men Are the Same depending on the translator), from which a woman’s voice reads in the first part of the film. In Lertxundi’s reinterpretation, images become analogous to words, film functions as poetry. The second part is a road movie across the industrial landscapes and streets of Southern California.