Leslie Thornton Movies

  • 2003
    Paradise Crushed

    Paradise Crushed

    Paradise Crushed

    02003HD

    Paradise Crushed could be the black hole at the center of the film and video constellation that is Thornton's Peggy and Fred cycle. Scraps of sound...

    Paradise Crushed
  • 2004
    End in New World

    End in New World

    End in New World

    02004HD

    Bedtime stories or prophesy? A child's version of geopolitical cosmologies, tiny bullies and the destruction and creation of worlds.

    End in New World
  • 2001
    The Splendor

    The Splendor

    The Splendor

    02001HD

    An episode of Peggy and Fred in Hell.

    The Splendor
  • 1999
    Chimp for Normal Short

    Chimp for Normal Short

    Chimp for Normal Short

    01999HD

    Thornton's continuing fascination with technology finds an unlikely expression in these digitally manipulated film sequences, in which a chimpanzee's...

    Chimp for Normal Short
  • 1996
    The Problem So Far

    The Problem So Far

    The Problem So Far

    01996HD

    A film in the Peggy and Fred in Hell cycle

    The Problem So Far
  • 1996
    Whirling

    Whirling

    Whirling

    01996HD

    A film in the Peggy and Fred in Hell cycle

    Whirling
  • 2002
    Have A Nice Day Alone

    Have A Nice Day Alone

    Have A Nice Day Alone

    02002HD

    "Elusive and compelling, Have a Nice Day Alone is surpassingly strange, even for Leslie Thornton, an acknowledged genius of the unexpected. The...

    Have A Nice Day Alone
  • 1976
    All Right You Guys

    All Right You Guys

    All Right You Guys

    01976HD

    A portrait of Thornton’s sister and a close friend. Shot while studying with cinema verite masters Ed Pincus & Richard Leacock, this early film...

    All Right You Guys
  • 1997
    ...Or Lost

    ...Or Lost

    ...Or Lost

    01997HD

    Part 1 of The Great Invisible

    ...Or Lost
  • 1988
    There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving

    There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving

    There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving

    01988HD

    "A fragmented, experimental biography of the 19th-century poet and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, whose brief, unusual life ended abruptly in a flash...

    There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving
  • 1990
    Introduction to the So-Called Duck Factory

    Introduction to the So-Called Duck Factory

    Introduction to the So-Called Duck Factory

    01990HD

    Leslie Thornton.

    Introduction to the So-Called Duck Factory
  • 1989
    Dung Smoke Enters the Palace

    Dung Smoke Enters the Palace

    Dung Smoke Enters the Palace

    01989HD

    An anti-narrative adventure traveling through a phantasmagoric environment void of stability. The video presents a bizarre compendium of archival and...

    Dung Smoke Enters the Palace
  • 1988
    Peggy and Fred and Pete

    Peggy and Fred and Pete

    Peggy and Fred and Pete

    01988HD

    Short film by Leslie Thornton, part of the Peggy and Fred in Hell series.

    Peggy and Fred and Pete
  • 1984
    Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Prologue

    Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Prologue

    Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Prologue

    01984HD

    The first installment of Leslie Thornton's ongoing epic follows two children, Peggy and Fred, through a densely cluttered, technological-consumer...

    Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Prologue
  • 1993
    Strange Space

    Strange Space

    Strange Space

    01993HD

    This collaborative work, created specifically for the 1992 Day Without Art/AIDS Awareness Day, addresses what Thornton terms "the relationship...

    Strange Space
  • 1977
    Howard

    Howard

    Howard

    01977HD

    b/w, 16mm film

    Howard
  • 1987
    Peggy and Fred in Kansas

    Peggy and Fred in Kansas

    Peggy and Fred in Kansas

    01987HD

    Peggy and Fred in Kansas is one of the earliest installments in Thornton's Peggy and Fred in Hell series. Thornton represents the outside world with...

    Peggy and Fred in Kansas
  • 1983
    Oh, China, Oh

    Oh, China, Oh

    Oh, China, Oh

    01983HD

    A post-script to ADYNATA, even more incorrect. -- L.T.

    Oh, China, Oh
  • 2004
    Let Me Count the Ways: 10...9…8…7…6

    Let Me Count the Ways: 10...9…8…7…6

    Let Me Count the Ways: 10...9…8…7…6

    02004HD

    The title simultaneously references the countdown to the dropping of the bomb and suggests anticipation. Minus 10 juxtaposes footage of the...

    Let Me Count the Ways: 10...9…8…7…6
  • 1975
    X-TRACTS

    X-TRACTS

    X-TRACTS

    01975HD

    This was my first 16mm film, made with Desmond Horsfield. For the image we created a gridded score of movements, both within the frame ('subject...

    X-TRACTS