IKONOPHILE Z (2024)
Starring T. Ryder Smith, Mitzi Akaha, & Betsy Aidem
A light romantic comedy about the extinction of all life on earth.
V13 (2025)
Starring Alan Cumming, Samual H. Levine, & Liam Aiken
In forgetting there lurks a remembering.
Forthcoming in 2025.
ADIEU LACAN (2022)
Starring David Patrick Kelly & Ismenia Mendes
A young woman Seriema, who is trying to understand why her path to motherhood has reached an unbearable impasse, travels to Paris to do psychoanalysis with the maverick French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan.
A Hole in One (2004)
Starring Michelle Williams, Meat Loaf, & The Wire’s Wendell Pierce
1953, a woman living in an abusive relationship in a small town with a local gangster decides that a lobotomy will solve her problems.
The Caller (2008)
Starring Elliott Gould, Frank Langella
An energy business exec is assisted by a private investigator in his effort to expose his corporation's corrupt practices.
Fred Won’t Move Out (2012)
Starring Elliott Gould, Fred Melamed
With levity and sadness, two grown children and their aging parents struggle with the decision whether the older generation should stay in the house where they have lived for fifty years.
Foreclosure (2014)
Starring Michael Imperioli, Wendell Pierce, Bill Raymond
The story of a family striving to stay together while a curse and the ghosts of a haunted house try to tear them apart.
The Dark Side (2015)
Starring Ali Ahn, Edoardo Ballerini, Chris Bamburry
Half romantic comedy, half documentary, a unique take on Hurricane Sandy with exclusive footage by a first responder shot as his own neighborhood goes up in flames.
No Human is Illegal (2018)
A personal encounter with the world of the refugees currently detained on the Greek island of Lesvos.
“The most beautiful thing on the black earth...is what you love.”
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About American Film Director Richard C. Ledes
Richard C. Ledes is a media artist, an award-winning filmmaker, and writer based in New York City, Athens and Paris. He has a BA from Amherst College and a doctorate in Comparative Literature from NYU.
His films include Ikonophile Z (forhcoming), Adieu Lacan, starring David Patrick Kelly and Ismenia Mendes, Foreclosure (2014), starring Michael Imperioli and A Hole in One 2004 starring Michelle Williams and Meat Loaf. His film The Caller (2008) won the Made in New York Prize at the Tribeca Film Festival and his film Fred Won’t Move Out (2012) was selected by BFI (The British Film Institute) as one of the ten best films of Elliott Gould.
His work takes “media” in a variety of its possible meanings–not only in the sense, for example, of digital media but also in the sense that language can be considered a form of media, as that which comes between human beings and immediate experience. Through his work Ledes seeks to divert our usual habits of thought and create an opening to the unsayable and what cannot be represented.
Near the end of the millennium, some five years after leaving Paris, approaching the end of my time in graduate school, driving on the Cross Bronx Expressway with my fiancée and my uncle Jimmy, headed into the Bronx to meet part of my father’s family, I listened as…