Leslie Thornton Movies

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

A short film from Leslie Thornton from 2021.

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

This video materializes an intense phase of exchange between the artists who belong to two distinct generations and contexts. Thornton, a media...

"Thornton's magnum opus, this ongoing and open-ended serial follows its two improvisatory protagonists, children “raised by technology,”...

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

Jennifer, Where Are You? is structured by a speech-act, a constant proleptic call, a man’s voice which has been edited and recut into a...

An episode of Peggy and Fred in Hell.

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...

A film in the Peggy and Fred in Hell cycle

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

Thornton evokes the instability that humankind acts upon through a combination of several voices – from cold to melancholic to anxious –...

For Abyss Film, Richards and Thornton intermix new videos with raw material from their own extensive archives. By doing so, they break with familiar...

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

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

Another Worldy opens with "The Lucky Girls" dancing atop a New York City skyscraper to the music of an all-female band. Among the many other dancers...

Different species of animals–on one side the original image and on the other, a kaleidoscopic version.

A film in the Peggy and Fred in Hell cycle

A short by Leslie Thornton from 2021.

Part 1 of The Great Invisible