A Hole in One

Richard Ledes is an award-winning American filmmaker and writer based in New York City. Ledes began making Super 8 films at the age of twelve and would return to filmmaking later in life. Before Ledes focused on filmmaking, he studied Ancient Greek, English Literature and Theatre at Amherst... College, graduating magna cum laude in 1979. He then formed a theater group to perform plays in Ancient Greek and created a play from the last book of Iliad that was performed in the original Greek by Ledes at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in Scotland. Subsequently, he lived in Paris, writing and directing plays. During this time he also began to write on art for a number of magazines, notably Artforum and Artscribe in London. While living in Paris, he also reconnected with his early love of cinema. He spent an increasing amount of time seeing films and eventually directed a series of short films in the city. When Ledes returned to New York at the end of the 80's, he began working on his doctorate in Comparative Literature at NYU. He also staged a series of pieces of performance art at various locations around New York City.
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