Leslie Thornton Movies
- 2024
Little, Big, and Far
Little, Big, and Far02024HD
Karl, a 70-year-old Austrian astronomer, is at a crossroads in life and work. After a conference in Greece, he decides not to return home and heads...
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- 1983
Adynata
Adynata4.51983HD
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...
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- 1993
Rhyme 'Em to Death
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Rhyme 'Em To Death reconstructs the trial from Victor Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame from a new perspective, that of a minor character - the goat....
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- 1988
There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving
There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving01988HD
"A fragmented, experimental biography of the 19th-century poet and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, whose brief, unusual life ended abruptly in a flash...
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- 2021
What I Learned of China from the Sky
What I Learned of China from the Sky02021HD
2021. China/USA. Filmmaker Leslie Thornton. 1 min. Digital.
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- 2001
The Splendor
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An episode of Peggy and Fred in Hell.
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- 1994
The Last Time I Saw Ron
The Last Time I Saw Ron01994HD
Made in memory of the actor and my friend, Ron Vawter. Ron passed away shortly after the opening performances of the play "Philoktetes Variations,"...
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- 1989
Dung Smoke Enters the Palace
Dung Smoke Enters the Palace01989HD
An anti-narrative adventure traveling through a phantasmagoric environment void of stability. The video presents a bizarre compendium of archival and...
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- 2013
The Fold
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The explosive—or perhaps, more appropriately, the implosive—final episode to Thornton's epic Peggy and Fred in Hell, whose production has...
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- 2004
End in New World
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Bedtime stories or prophesy? A child's version of geopolitical cosmologies, tiny bullies and the destruction and creation of worlds.
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- 1996
Whirling
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A film in the Peggy and Fred in Hell cycle
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- 2021
Bee HEMLOCK
Bee HEMLOCK02021HD
A short by Leslie Thornton from 2021.
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- 2016
They Were Just People
They Were Just People02016HD
Two circles, twice the same image: a restless pool of simmering tar. The soundtrack also evokes hellish associations with an eyewitness report of...
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- 2016
Crossing
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This video materializes an intense phase of exchange between the artists who belong to two distinct generations and contexts. Thornton, a media...
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- 1984
Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Prologue
Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Prologue01984HD
The first installment of Leslie Thornton's ongoing epic follows two children, Peggy and Fred, through a densely cluttered, technological-consumer...
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- 1993
Strange Space
Strange Space01993HD
This collaborative work, created specifically for the 1992 Day Without Art/AIDS Awareness Day, addresses what Thornton terms "the relationship...
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- 1983
Oh, China, Oh
Oh, China, Oh01983HD
A post-script to ADYNATA, even more incorrect. -- L.T.
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- 1996
The Problem So Far
The Problem So Far01996HD
A film in the Peggy and Fred in Hell cycle
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- 2018
Cut from Liquid to Snake
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Thornton evokes the instability that humankind acts upon through a combination of several voices – from cold to melancholic to anxious –...
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- 1997
...Or Lost
...Or Lost01997HD
Part 1 of The Great Invisible
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