A showcase for experimental filmmaker Chris Langdon
The largely unknown L.A. filmmaker had a penchant for 'very powerful single ideas.' Her student work is the focus of a REDCAT retrospective.
By Reed Johnson
January 25, 2010
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-langdon25-2010jan25,0,3566708.storyFor decades, colleagues and connoisseurs say, Chris Langdon was arguably the most interesting and important experimental L.A. filmmaker that most people had never heard of. Even many of Langdon's old friends and teachers from the California Institute of the Arts, including artist John Baldessari and avant-garde trickster auteur Robert Nelson, didn't know what had become of her over the last 30 years.
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But Langdon acknowledges that old acquaintances may have trouble recognizing her as Inga, the female incarnation she assumed several years ago after a sex change. On a chilly afternoon last week at a Pasadena restaurant, the artist also indicated that no one was more surprised than herself when film preservationist Mark Toscano, who curated REDCAT's program, tracked her down through the Internet several months ago. "I guess I was just a little incredulous that anyone would remember those films, and a little wary about it, to be honest," said Inga, who asked that her surname not be used to protect her privacy. "But after awhile, I thought it was pretty cool."
