Titles by Leslie Thornton

Adynata
Another Worldy
Bedtime
Binocular Menagerie
Chimp for Normal Short
Have A Nice Day Alone
Introduction to the So-Called Duck-Factory
Jennifer, Where Are You?
Let Me Count the Ways: Minus 10, Minus 9, Minus 8, and Minus 7
Let Me Count the Ways: Minus 6
Novel City
Paradise Crushed
Peggy and Fred and Pete
Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Prologue
Peggy and Fred in Kansas
Philosophers Walk on the Sublime
Photography is Easy
Sahara/Mojave
SONGS One Two Three
Strange Space
The Fold
The Last Time I Saw Ron
The Problem So Far
There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving
Whirling
X-TRACTS
[Dung Smoke Enters the Palace]

Adynata

1983, 30 min, color, sound

Deploying fragments of sound and image in a confounding shell-game, Adynata challenges notions of Asianness and the East. Thornton, appearing in the guise of a 19th-century Mandarin and his wife, explores oppositions of femininity and masculinity concealed in Orientalist assumptions. Here, lushly beautiful scenarios function as double-edged critical tools, inhabiting the discourse that they critique.