Directing
Chris Langdon
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Directing
Credits
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Chris Langdon (born 1952) is an American artist based in Los Angeles who produced a large body of work in many media, including painting, sculpture, graphics, assemblage, photography, film, and video. While attending California Institute of the Arts from 1971-76 in the Film (BFA) and Art (MFA) schools, Chris was extremely prolific, in particular producing about forty 16mm and 35mm films, in addition to assisting artists Robert Nelson, John Baldessari, and Jack Goldstein in the production of some of their films. Chris's film work was influenced by, but also satirized tendencies in the Los Angeles art world toward conceptual and structural work. Most of her film work makes extensive use of l…
Known for
NRNo montage, no human subjects, minimal visual content, and the artists basically pissing on the fourth wall by calling attention in every way possible to the artifice of what they’re doing. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.
Venusville
1973
A 'sort of funny' idea I had, based upon a real experience of being lost at night in the desert, was to film through the headlights of a truck, that truck running over bushes in the desert with their nice crunching sound. -- Chris Langdon
Express Implication
1975
1974, b/w, sound, 10 min., aka Express Implication
999 Boy
1974
ca. 1973-4, color, sound, 6 min.
Intermittent Transposition
1974
“When Picasso died I wanted to make the first post-mortem documentary, as I knew would happen anyway, and cheaply. The film took four hours to finish from camera to print and cost a little under $5." Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.
Picasso
1973
NR“A quiet evening at home with a little twine....” (Langdon)
Bondage Boy
1973
Behind the camera
NRNo montage, no human subjects, minimal visual content, and the artists basically pissing on the fourth wall by calling attention in every way possible to the artifice of what they’re doing. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.
Venusville
1973
A 'sort of funny' idea I had, based upon a real experience of being lost at night in the desert, was to film through the headlights of a truck, that truck running over bushes in the desert with their nice crunching sound. -- Chris Langdon
Express Implication
1975
1974, b/w, sound, 10 min., aka Express Implication
999 Boy
1974
ca. 1973-4, color, sound, 6 min.
Intermittent Transposition
1974
“When Picasso died I wanted to make the first post-mortem documentary, as I knew would happen anyway, and cheaply. The film took four hours to finish from camera to print and cost a little under $5." Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2008.
Picasso
1973
NR“A quiet evening at home with a little twine....” (Langdon)
Bondage Boy
1973
1973, color, sound, 6 min., aka Immaculate Gate. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.
Bondage Girl
1973
ca. 1974, color, sound, 5 min.
My Laser
1974
1974, color, sound, 5 min. (aka I’ve Seen Hundreds of Movies 2, 5, 10, 20 Times or More as Long as This, Based on Thinner Premises)
Thin Premises
1974
NRA day at the beach in Malibu, at the northwestern edge of what Reyner Banham calls 'Surfurbia.'
Now, You Can Do Anything
1973
1973, b/w, sound, 4 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.
This is the Brain of Otis Crawfield
1973
ca. 1973-4, b/w, silent, 9 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2012.
The Plant Film
1974
“The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.” (Lester Bangs, quoted here without the permission of the filmmaker)
Interview With an Artist
1975
color, sound, 15 min., never shown. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.
My Girdle My God
1972
ca. 1975, 35mm, color, sound, 4 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2011.
Choppers
1975
NR“When one likes something very much, or someone, it is hard to do anything but like it. I didn’t want to take anything away or add anything to this song because I like it a lot.” --Chris Langdon. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
The Gypsy Cried
1973
1975, b/w, sound, 3 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
Go Cart
1975
ca. 1974, b/w, sound, 4 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2016.
The Surf Caster’s Story
1974
1975, b/w, sound, 6 min.
The Last Interview With P. Passolini
1975
Cruisin’ for a bruisin’. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2015.
Two Faces Have I
1973
NRPresents a series of goofy romantic and pseudo-professional interludes among its all-male cast in the guise of a soap opera TV spot. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2010.
Love Hospital Trailer
1975
1972, color, sound, 6 min. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in 2009.
Go Oh Wow
1972