The largely unknown L.A. filmmaker had a penchant for 'very powerful single ideas.' Her student work is the focus of a REDCAT retrospective.

For 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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