Movies
- 2008
Novel City
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In Novel City, Thornton revisits her 1983 film Adynata, which explored questions of the Other through what Thornton has termed an "Orientalist...
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- 2001
The Splendor
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An episode of Peggy and Fred in Hell.
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- 2004
End in New World
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Bedtime stories or prophesy? A child's version of geopolitical cosmologies, tiny bullies and the destruction and creation of worlds.
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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
The Problem So Far
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A film in the Peggy and Fred in Hell cycle
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- 1996
Whirling
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A film in the Peggy and Fred in Hell cycle
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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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- 1976
All Right You Guys
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A portrait of Thornton’s sister and a close friend. Shot while studying with cinema verite masters Ed Pincus & Richard Leacock, this early film...
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- 1997
...Or Lost
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Part 1 of The Great Invisible
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- 1988
There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving
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"A fragmented, experimental biography of the 19th-century poet and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, whose brief, unusual life ended abruptly in a flash...
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- 1990
Introduction to the So-Called Duck Factory
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Leslie Thornton.
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- 1989
Dung Smoke Enters the Palace
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An anti-narrative adventure traveling through a phantasmagoric environment void of stability. The video presents a bizarre compendium of archival and...
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- 1988
Peggy and Fred and Pete
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Short film by Leslie Thornton, part of the Peggy and Fred in Hell series.
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- 1984
Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Prologue
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The first installment of Leslie Thornton's ongoing epic follows two children, Peggy and Fred, through a densely cluttered, technological-consumer...
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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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- 1977
Howard
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b/w, 16mm film
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- 1987
Peggy and Fred in Kansas
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Peggy and Fred in Kansas is one of the earliest installments in Thornton's Peggy and Fred in Hell series. Thornton represents the outside world with...
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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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- 2004
Let Me Count the Ways: 10...9…8…7…6
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The title simultaneously references the countdown to the dropping of the bomb and suggests anticipation. Minus 10 juxtaposes footage of the...
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- 1975
X-TRACTS
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This was my first 16mm film, made with Desmond Horsfield. For the image we created a gridded score of movements, both within the frame ('subject...
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