Leslie Thornton

Leslie Thornton

Overview

Refracted through archival material, texts, found footage and dense soundtracks, Leslie Thornton's rigorously experimental film and video work is an investigation into the production of meaning through media. Her epic project Peggy and Fred in Hell is an ongoing cycle of interrelated films, videos and installation environments. Exploring the aesthetics of narrative form as well as the politics of the image, Thornton forges a unique and strangely beautiful syntax, one that poses its critique at the same time that it mesmerizes and confounds.

Titles
sort:  a-z | year
1983, 30 min, color, sound
1999, 22 min, b&w, sound
2000, 3:50 min, b&w, sound
2014, 2:50 min, color, sound, HD video
1999, 6:30 min, b&w, sound
2002, 6:52 min, b&w, sound
1990, 7 min, color and b&w, sound
1981, 11 min, color, sound, 16 mm film on video
2006, 2 min, b&w, sound
2008, 7:40 min, color, sound
2003, 12:10 min, color, sound
1988, 23 min, sepia, sound
1984, 18:43 min, b&w, sound
1987, 11 min, b&w, sound
2013, 17 min, color, sound, HD video
2006, 4:30 min, color, sound
2006, 12 min, color, sound
2014, 13:38 min, color, sound, HD video
1992, 3:46 min, color, sound
2013, 2:12 min, b&w, sound, HD video
1994, 12 min, color and b&w, sound
1996, 7 min, b&w, sound
1988, 61:17 min, b&w and color, sound
1996, 2 min, b&w, sound
1975, 8:30 min, b&w, sound, 16 mm film on video
1989, 17 min, b&w, sound