Leslie Thornton Movies
- 1983
Adynata
Adynata4.51983HD
A formal 1861 portrait of a Chinese Mandarin and his wife is the starting point for this allegorical investigation of the fantasies spawned in the...
- 2013
Philosophers Walk on the Sublime
Philosophers Walk on the Sublime02013HD
The remarkable landscape of the Swiss Alps inflects Thornton's musings on the sublime, as it may be pursued in nature and photography.
- 2001
The Splendor
The Splendor02001HD
An episode of Peggy and Fred in Hell.
- 2003
Paradise Crushed
Paradise Crushed02003HD
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...
- 1996
The Problem So Far
The Problem So Far01996HD
A film in the Peggy and Fred in Hell cycle
- 1996
Whirling
Whirling01996HD
A film in the Peggy and Fred in Hell cycle
- 2016
They Were Just People
They Were Just People02016HD
Two circles, twice the same image: a restless pool of simmering tar. The soundtrack also evokes hellish associations with an eyewitness report of...
- 1988
There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving
There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving01988HD
"A fragmented, experimental biography of the 19th-century poet and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, whose brief, unusual life ended abruptly in a flash...
- 1977
Howard
Howard01977HD
b/w, 16mm film
- 2008
Novel City
Novel City02008HD
In Novel City, Thornton revisits her 1983 film Adynata, which explored questions of the Other through what Thornton has termed an "Orientalist...
- 1999
Chimp for Normal Short
Chimp for Normal Short01999HD
Thornton's continuing fascination with technology finds an unlikely expression in these digitally manipulated film sequences, in which a chimpanzee's...
- 2021
High Heels Beloved
High Heels Beloved02021HD
A short film from Leslie Thornton from 2021.
- 2021
Bee HEMLOCK
Bee HEMLOCK02021HD
A short by Leslie Thornton from 2021.
- 2002
Have A Nice Day Alone
Have A Nice Day Alone02002HD
"Elusive and compelling, Have a Nice Day Alone is surpassingly strange, even for Leslie Thornton, an acknowledged genius of the unexpected. The...
- 1990
Introduction to the So-Called Duck Factory
Introduction to the So-Called Duck Factory01990HD
Leslie Thornton.
- 1989
Dung Smoke Enters the Palace
Dung Smoke Enters the Palace01989HD
An anti-narrative adventure traveling through a phantasmagoric environment void of stability. The video presents a bizarre compendium of archival and...
- 2017
Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding
Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding02017HD
"Thornton's magnum opus, this ongoing and open-ended serial follows its two improvisatory protagonists, children “raised by technology,”...
- 1987
Peggy and Fred in Kansas
Peggy and Fred in Kansas01987HD
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...
- 2014
Binocular Menagerie
Binocular Menagerie02014HD
Different species of animals–on one side the original image and on the other, a kaleidoscopic version.
- 1981
Jennifer, Where Are You?
Jennifer, Where Are You?01981HD
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...