Chris Langdon
Filmmaker
Chris Langdon lives and works in Los Angeles. An admirer of surrealism, her first calling was painting, though inspired by B-movies, she soon deviated. From 1971 to 1976 she studied Art and Cinema at the California Institute of the Arts, where she collaborated in the production of films and artistic works by John Baldessari and Jack Goldstein, as well as working with her mentor at the school, filmmaker Robert Nelson.
In the course of those years Langdon made some 40 short films in 16mm and 35mm, packed with humour, pulp references and irreverent criticism of both structural cinema and audiovisual consumerism. Langdon also produced work in other artistic disciplines such as painting, sculpture, graphic art, assemblage, lithography, photography and video, marked by the subversive nature of her films.
Langdon stopped making films in 1976 and gave up the art world in 1994. In 1997, she graduated from a school of Chinese medicine and in 2010 she resumed painting.
Update: 13 January 2025