Words, Planets Laida Lertxundi, 2018

This film applies the six principles for composition delineated in Opinions on Painting by the Monk of the Green Pumpkin, written by the eighteenthcentury Chinese painter ShihTao as referenced in Raúl Ruízs essay For a Shamanic Cinema (for example, draw attention to a scene emerging from a static background or add scattered dynamism to immobility). The film is composed of scenes with nonactors, and texts by and Lucy and recorded in Habana, Cuba; Los Angeles; Devils Punch Bowl; Ryan Mountain; Jurupa Hills, Pasadena and Idyllwild, California.