Leslie Thornton

Leslie Thornton (* 1951 in Knoxville , Tennessee ) is an American filmmaker and artist.

biography

Leslie Thornton became involved in avant-garde cinema from a young age by attending weekly screenings in the field of experimental film in a Unitarian church in Schenectady , New York . The experiences gained there influenced Thornton's aesthetic point of view. In the early 1970s, she focused on the field of painting and produced a large amount of paintings. Thomas Zummer wrote in Senses of Cinema : “Thornton's paintings bring a sensual, expressionistic hand into a strict, formal, geometric classification”.

Leslie Thornton attended the State University of New York in Buffalo, New York. During her studies she worked with filmmakers like Hollis Frampton , Paul Sharits , Stan Brakhage and Peter Kubelka . She studied at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge , Massachusetts with Richard Leacock and Ed Pincus.

Thornton received u. a. the Maya Deren Award, the first Alpert Award in the Arts for Media, a nomination for the Hugo Boss Award, two Rockefeller Fellowships and grants from the National Endowment for the Arts , from the New York State Council on the Arts, from the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation, and Art Matters.

She lives in New York and Rhode Island . Thornton is primarily concerned with creating experimental films. She is Professor of New Culture and Media at Brown University .

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Leslie Thornton's film and media works have been exhibited all over the world, including a. at the Museum of Modern Art , New York, the Whitney Biennial , the Center Georges Pompidou , Paris, at the International Film Festival Rotterdam , at the New York Film Festival, at the capcMusée, Bordeaux, at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley and at festivals in Oberhausen, Graz , Mannheim, Berlin, Austin, Toronto, Tokyo and Seoul. Thornton was the only female experimental filmmaker to appear in Cahiers du Cinema The 60 Most Important American Directors .

Leslie Thornton's Peggy and Fred in Hell project has been featured on numerous annual leaderboards including the New York Times and Village Voice.

Filmography

• Adynata (1983, the title of the experimental film means something like the impossibility [to put something out])

Books from her

• Leslie Thornton: tuned always to a shifting ground. San Francisco Cinematheque, 2008
• Leslie Thornton: recent sculpture 1969

Literature about them

• Leslie Thornton. Su Friedrich, and Abigail Child In: Jean Petrolle; Virginia Wright Wexman: Women and experimental filmmaking. University of Illinois Press, 2005, ISBN 0252030060 , pages 19 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Leslie Thornton's faculty page at Brown University with a biography and list of works. ( English ) Brown University . Archived from the original on January 21, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved July 3, 2011. 
2. ↑ Corinn Columpar; Sophie Mayer: There she goes: feminist filmmaking and beyond. Wayne State University Press, 2009, ISBN 9780814333907 , pages 185 ff.