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]

Let Me Count the Ways: Minus 6

2006, 2 min, b&w, sound

Minus 6 is the fifth installment in an ongoing series of videos entitled Let Me Count the Ways.

Writes Thornton: "I am interested in the parallels between the calculated use of the media by Hitler, his theatrical training, and the cynical deployment of the mass media in waging present day politics and warfare. The image of Hitler is always horrifying. Observing him rehearse his dramatics for the camera is chilling because we know that is what is happening today."

Image: Hitler works with a drama coach while listening to a recording of one of his own speeches. Photographs: Heinrich Hoffman. The year is 1925. Sound: The voice-over text is from a 1923 speech given by Hermann Goring.