Leslie Thornton Movies
- 2023
HANDMADE
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HANDMADE is a film diptych that juxtaposes natural phenomena with technological discovery. Above, we see the chaotic, digitally manipulated streams...
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- 2018
Cut from Liquid to Snake
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Thornton evokes the instability that humankind acts upon through a combination of several voices – from cold to melancholic to anxious –...
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- 2016
They Were Just People
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Two circles, twice the same image: a restless pool of simmering tar. The soundtrack also evokes hellish associations with an eyewitness report of...
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- 1990
Introduction to the So-Called Duck Factory
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Leslie Thornton.
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- 2020
Ground
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In her eponymous film “Ground” (2020), Thornton outlines the coming into form of a reality in which the ground or base—like the...
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- 1983
Oh, China, Oh
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A post-script to ADYNATA, even more incorrect. -- L.T.
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- 1993
Strange Space
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This collaborative work, created specifically for the 1992 Day Without Art/AIDS Awareness Day, addresses what Thornton terms "the relationship...
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- 1999
Chimp for Normal Short
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Thornton's continuing fascination with technology finds an unlikely expression in these digitally manipulated film sequences, in which a chimpanzee's...
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- 1996
Whirling
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A film in the Peggy and Fred in Hell cycle
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- 2021
What I Learned of China from the Sky
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2021. China/USA. Filmmaker Leslie Thornton. 1 min. Digital.
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- 1996
The Problem So Far
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A film in the Peggy and Fred in Hell cycle
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- 1981
Jennifer, Where Are You?
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Jennifer, Where Are You? is structured by a speech-act, a constant proleptic call, a man’s voice which has been edited and recut into a...
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- 2021
Bee HEMLOCK
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A short by Leslie Thornton from 2021.
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- 2001
The Splendor
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An episode of Peggy and Fred in Hell.
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- 2013
The Fold
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The explosive—or perhaps, more appropriately, the implosive—final episode to Thornton's epic Peggy and Fred in Hell, whose production has...
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- 2013
Philosophers Walk on the Sublime
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The remarkable landscape of the Swiss Alps inflects Thornton's musings on the sublime, as it may be pursued in nature and photography.
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- 2002
Have A Nice Day Alone
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"Elusive and compelling, Have a Nice Day Alone is surpassingly strange, even for Leslie Thornton, an acknowledged genius of the unexpected. The...
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- 2003
Paradise Crushed
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Paradise Crushed could be the black hole at the center of the film and video constellation that is Thornton's Peggy and Fred cycle. Scraps of sound...
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- 2014
Binocular Menagerie
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Different species of animals–on one side the original image and on the other, a kaleidoscopic version.
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- 2016
Crossing
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This video materializes an intense phase of exchange between the artists who belong to two distinct generations and contexts. Thornton, a media...
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