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Richard Ledes is an American filmmaker and writer based in New York City, best known for his 2012 feature film drama Fred Won't Move Out about Alzheimer starring Elliott Gould and Fred Melamed.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Fred Won't Move Out Rotten (2012) )〕 ==Background== Richard Ledes began making Super 8 films at the age of twelve. He studied Ancient Greek, English literature and Theatre at Amherst College, graduating magna cum laude in 1979. He 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. He moved to Paris where he wrote and direct plays such as "Midtown Stabber" and "The Gift of Walking", a seven-minute play accompanied by Prokofiev's "Seventh Sonata" and performed at Atelier Mahdavi on Rue de la Roquette. He also turned his then-apartment at 242 Rue Saint Martin into a theater where the play "Shade" was performed. Shade included a 16 mm sequence of bowling pins that was shot by the French documentary filmmaker Richard Hamon. Ledes subsequently directed and wrote a number of short films, among which, "Animals," a 5-minute 16mm film based on the grandmother's tale in Buchner's play Woyzeck. During this time he also began to write on art for a number of magazines, notably ''Artforum'' and ''Artscribe'' in London. The majority of the work he reviewed was performance art. He subsequently did a number of pieces of performance art at American Fine Arts, a gallery owned by his childhood friend and prominent figure of the artworld in the 80s and 90s, the late Colin Deland. One of these, "Taste" was based on the records of a WWII veteran who had a psychotic break. He was by then working on his doctorate in Comparative Literature at New York University. The performance “Taste” had introduced him to the topic of his doctoral dissertation: the rise of mental health care after WWII based on the treatment of returning soldiers and how it became party of American culture. As part of his research for his dissertation, he volunteered at an out-patient center for severely mentally ill patients. His dissertation was finished in 1996 and named "The Pure Products of America Go Crazy: The Language of Schizophrenia in the United States During the Early Cold War”. It subsequently served as research material for his first feature film A Hole in One starring award-winning actress Michelle Williams. There he assistant-directed a series of plays created and performed by the patients, one of which, "Room 13A" was about a drug that cured all mental illness but had one side-effect: it brought back the dead. Richard played a small came role as Antonin Artaud working as a waiter. "Room 13A" was reviewed by "The Village Voice". 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Richard Ledes」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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