Landscape Plus. Laida Lertxundi

I was listening to Robert Wyatt's version of the Yolanda song by Cuban singer-songwriter Pablo Milanés, whose beginning states the following:

Esto no puede ser no mas que una canción

Quisiera fuera una declaración de amor

Romántica sin reparar en formas tales

Que ponga freno a lo que siento ahora a raudales

Te amo

Te amo

Eternamente te amo

My translation into English:

This can be nothing but a song

But I wish for it to be a declaration of love

Romantic, without laboring over forms that would

Restrict the feeling that is pouring over me

I love you

I love you

Eternally I love you

In Spanish, te amo can be translated to I love you . Te amo is deeper. If you are reading this, please listen to the song now (Yolanda, by Robert Wyatt). Milanés, in these stanzas, reflects on the act of writing and its meaning, suggesting a conflict between form and emotion. This conflict is the generating principle of my films.

Laida Lertxundi

Forma y emoción. Landscape Plus

My Tears are Dry, 2009, 4'

The Room Called Heaven, 2012, 11'

Cry When It Happens, 2010, 14'

Utskor: Either/Or, 2013, 8'

025 Sunset Red, 2016, 14'

A Lax Riddle Unit, 2011, 6