025 Sunset Red is a highly self-reflective work, the artist Laida Lertxundi comes to terms with the experience of having grown up in a loving Marxist family in Spain and how it has shaped her. It is an intimate work that needs time and receptivity, which still contains much ambiguity for me after a few watches. The human search for freedom has taken many paths, in the United States the approach has been individualism, in other places, such as in parts of Spain, communism has been tried, an approach that often worked better on a smaller scale, community solidarity to avoid the tyranny of rent-seeking parasitism (though watch the golden oldie movie Dragonwyck to see a story of the same process in American history, the fight against the Dutch patroons). It felt to me like the film speaks to this. The similarities between Californian and Spanish geography seem like a lever Lertxundi pulls to make this point. The image that grabbed me most from an aesthetic point of view was the superimposition shot with a fountain, as if for Laida Lertxundi, the past offers a continuous fountain of support to draw upon.
The work seens ultra-consensual, it leaves a lot of room for personal takes, such as mine. If the artist ever sees and disagrees with my scribblings, please forgive me!