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Double exposure portrait of media artist and filmmaker Richard C. Ledes holding a camera

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 V13, with Alan Cumming (upcoming 2025), Ikonophile Z, starring Betsy Aidem, Mitzi Akaha and T. Ryder Smith, 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), starring Frank Langella, Elliott Gould and Laura Harring, 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.