Leslie Thornton Movies

  • 1983
    Adynata

    Adynata

    Adynata

    4.51983HD

    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...

    Adynata
  • 2013
    Philosophers Walk on the Sublime

    Philosophers Walk on the Sublime

    Philosophers Walk on the Sublime

    02013HD

    The remarkable landscape of the Swiss Alps inflects Thornton's musings on the sublime, as it may be pursued in nature and photography.

    Philosophers Walk on the Sublime
  • 2001
    The Splendor

    The Splendor

    The Splendor

    02001HD

    An episode of Peggy and Fred in Hell.

    The Splendor
  • 2003
    Paradise Crushed

    Paradise Crushed

    Paradise Crushed

    02003HD

    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...

    Paradise Crushed
  • 1996
    The Problem So Far

    The Problem So Far

    The Problem So Far

    01996HD

    A film in the Peggy and Fred in Hell cycle

    The Problem So Far
  • 1996
    Whirling

    Whirling

    Whirling

    01996HD

    A film in the Peggy and Fred in Hell cycle

    Whirling
  • 2016
    They Were Just People

    They Were Just People

    They Were Just People

    02016HD

    Two circles, twice the same image: a restless pool of simmering tar. The soundtrack also evokes hellish associations with an eyewitness report of...

    They Were Just People
  • 1988
    There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving

    There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving

    There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving

    01988HD

    "A fragmented, experimental biography of the 19th-century poet and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, whose brief, unusual life ended abruptly in a flash...

    There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving
  • 1977
    Howard

    Howard

    Howard

    01977HD

    b/w, 16mm film

    Howard
  • 2008
    Novel City

    Novel City

    Novel City

    02008HD

    In Novel City, Thornton revisits her 1983 film Adynata, which explored questions of the Other through what Thornton has termed an "Orientalist...

    Novel City
  • 1999
    Chimp for Normal Short

    Chimp for Normal Short

    Chimp for Normal Short

    01999HD

    Thornton's continuing fascination with technology finds an unlikely expression in these digitally manipulated film sequences, in which a chimpanzee's...

    Chimp for Normal Short
  • 2021
    High Heels Beloved

    High Heels Beloved

    High Heels Beloved

    02021HD

    A short film from Leslie Thornton from 2021.

    High Heels Beloved
  • 2021
    Bee HEMLOCK

    Bee HEMLOCK

    Bee HEMLOCK

    02021HD

    A short by Leslie Thornton from 2021.

    Bee HEMLOCK
  • 2002
    Have A Nice Day Alone

    Have A Nice Day Alone

    Have A Nice Day Alone

    02002HD

    "Elusive and compelling, Have a Nice Day Alone is surpassingly strange, even for Leslie Thornton, an acknowledged genius of the unexpected. The...

    Have A Nice Day Alone
  • 1990
    Introduction to the So-Called Duck Factory

    Introduction to the So-Called Duck Factory

    Introduction to the So-Called Duck Factory

    01990HD

    Leslie Thornton.

    Introduction to the So-Called Duck Factory
  • 1989
    Dung Smoke Enters the Palace

    Dung Smoke Enters the Palace

    Dung Smoke Enters the Palace

    01989HD

    An anti-narrative adventure traveling through a phantasmagoric environment void of stability. The video presents a bizarre compendium of archival and...

    Dung Smoke Enters the Palace
  • 2017
    Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding

    Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding

    Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding

    02017HD

    "Thornton's magnum opus, this ongoing and open-ended serial follows its two improvisatory protagonists, children “raised by technology,”...

    Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding
  • 1987
    Peggy and Fred in Kansas

    Peggy and Fred in Kansas

    Peggy and Fred in Kansas

    01987HD

    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...

    Peggy and Fred in Kansas
  • 2014
    Binocular Menagerie

    Binocular Menagerie

    Binocular Menagerie

    02014HD

    Different species of animals–on one side the original image and on the other, a kaleidoscopic version.

    Binocular Menagerie
  • 1981
    Jennifer, Where Are You?

    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...

    Jennifer, Where Are You?