Laida Lertxundi (Bilbao, 1981) is a filmmaker and artist living and working in Los Angeles, California. Her work, shot primarily on 16mm in and around Los Angeles,
is made with people, landscapes and sounds, and employs a fragmentary approach to editing in which cinematic forms of storytelling are replaced by a focus on process and materiality.
Lertxundi has been featured in solo exhibitions at Marta Cervera Gallery, Madrid, and Alhóndiga, Bilbao, and shown in the Lyon Biennale, LIAF Biennial and Whitney Biennial. Her films have screened at the New York Film Festival; Rotterdam International Film Festival; MOMA, New York; LACMA, Los Angeles; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; among others. Writing on her films has been published in Frieze Magazine, Film Quarterly, CinemaScope Magazine, The Nation, Art in America and Artforum. Lertxundi studied at Bard College (BFA) and the California Institute of the Arts (MFA) and teaches film at the University of California San Diego.