The Room Called Heaven

Laida Lertxundi / Spain, United States / 2012 / 11 min
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Synopsis

American plains and high altitudes assembled in a B-roll structure take us to a place of sounds*. Plans américains show color and temperature shifts while an emotional room tone is sustained for the length of a 400ft camera roll.

* Vision: Sound on Screen, Michel Chion.

About the Director
Laida Lertxundi (Bilbao, 1981) makes films with non-actors that evoke external and internal spaces of intimacy. Through intricate arrangements of actions and sounds, her work explores how filmic moments can be imbued with emotional resonance. As her cinema questions how viewers’ desires and expectations are shaped by cinematic forms of storytelling, it also searches for alternative ways of linking sound and music with found locales, constructed situations, and quotidian environments. Shot within and around Los Angeles, her films map out a geography of landscapes transformed by affective and subjective states.
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