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]
Novel City
In Novel City, Thornton revisits her 1983 film Adynata, which explored questions of the Other through what Thornton has termed an "Orientalist spectacle" that was "intended to bring about a critical self-response, a simultaneous attraction and repulsion that provoke an instance of cultural self-awareness." In her new work, Thornton confronts the economic and cultural transformation of contemporary China, evoking a new spectacle of capitalism run amok. Thornton shoots from her window of the Jin Jiang Hotel in Shanghai, the site of Mao's 1972 meeting with Nixon, and projects images from the earlier movie, creating a layered landscape of alienation and dislocation.
Conceived, shot and edited by Leslie Thornton. Includes scenes from her 1983 film, Adynata.
