Most Popular Leslie Thornton Trailers
Total trailers found: 42
Rhyme 'Em to Death Trailer (1993)
01 January 1993
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.
Jennifer, Where Are You? Trailer (1981)
01 January 1981
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 repetitive and pervasive presence.
The Last Time I Saw Ron Trailer (1994)
01 January 1994
Made in memory of the actor and my friend, Ron Vawter. Ron passed away shortly after the opening performances of the play "Philoktetes Variations," directed by Jan Ritsema and co-authored by Ritsema and Vawter.
The Fold Trailer (2013)
10 October 2013
The explosive—or perhaps, more appropriately, the implosive—final episode to Thornton's epic Peggy and Fred in Hell, whose production has spanned more than thirty years, The Fold finds Peggy and Fred's world disintegrating into a sentient pile of electrical noise.
Peggy and Fred in Hell: Folding Trailer (2017)
27 March 2017
"Thornton's magnum opus, this ongoing and open-ended serial follows its two improvisatory protagonists, children “raised by technology,” through a surreal landscape where pop culture and history, science and science fiction blur.
Another Worldy Trailer (1999)
25 March 1999
Another Worldy opens with "The Lucky Girls" dancing atop a New York City skyscraper to the music of an all-female band.
Peggy and Fred and Pete Trailer (1988)
02 January 1988
Short film by Leslie Thornton, part of the Peggy and Fred in Hell series.
X-TRACTS Trailer (1975)
01 January 1975
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 moves right to left') and between the camera and the subject (zooms, pans, tilts.
Dung Smoke Enters the Palace Trailer (1989)
01 January 1989
An anti-narrative adventure traveling through a phantasmagoric environment void of stability. The video presents a bizarre compendium of archival and industrial footage accompanied by a noisy soundtrack of music and voices from the past, as if echoing the ether of the viewer’s mind.
Cut from Liquid to Snake Trailer (2018)
01 July 2018
Thornton evokes the instability that humankind acts upon through a combination of several voices – from cold to melancholic to anxious – all at textural odds with one another.
Let Me Count the Ways: 10...9…8…7…6 Trailer (2004)
22 February 2004
The title simultaneously references the countdown to the dropping of the bomb and suggests anticipation.
Philosophers Walk on the Sublime Trailer (2013)
02 October 2013
The remarkable landscape of the Swiss Alps inflects Thornton's musings on the sublime, as it may be pursued in nature and photography.
Strange Space Trailer (1993)
16 February 1993
This collaborative work, created specifically for the 1992 Day Without Art/AIDS Awareness Day, addresses what Thornton terms "the relationship between the medicalization of the body and the personal.
Ground Trailer (2020)
26 February 2020
In her eponymous film “Ground” (2020), Thornton outlines the coming into form of a reality in which the ground or base—like the ground of a painting or the physical ground that human existence has always been pulled toward by gravity—becomes undefined.
Paradise Crushed Trailer (2003)
01 October 2003
Paradise Crushed could be the black hole at the center of the film and video constellation that is Thornton's Peggy and Fred cycle.
Binocular Menagerie Trailer (2014)
01 May 2014
Different species of animals–on one side the original image and on the other, a kaleidoscopic version.
Photography is Easy - Version 2 Trailer (2010)
16 February 2010
In the ongoing project Photography is Easy, Thornton continues her investigation of the production of meaning through media such as photography, film and video.
Abyss Film Trailer (2018)
01 January 2018
For Abyss Film, Richards and Thornton intermix new videos with raw material from their own extensive archives.
Have A Nice Day Alone Trailer (2002)
01 January 2002
"Elusive and compelling, Have a Nice Day Alone is surpassingly strange, even for Leslie Thornton, an acknowledged genius of the unexpected.
Chimp for Normal Short Trailer (1999)
01 January 1999
Thornton's continuing fascination with technology finds an unlikely expression in these digitally manipulated film sequences, in which a chimpanzee's pratfalls come to stand in for the human experience of media.
Novel City Trailer (2008)
01 June 2008
In Novel City, Thornton revisits her 1983 film Adynata, which explored questions of the Other through what Thornton has termed an "Orientalist spectacle" that was "intended to bring about a critical self-response, a simultaneous attraction and repulsion that provoke an instance of cultural self-awareness.
Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Prologue Trailer (1984)
09 October 1984
The first installment of Leslie Thornton's ongoing epic follows two children, Peggy and Fred, through a densely cluttered, technological-consumer jumble of late 20th century icons.
They Were Just People Trailer (2016)
01 January 2016
Two circles, twice the same image: a restless pool of simmering tar. The soundtrack also evokes hellish associations with an eyewitness report of atom bombs dropping on Japan.
End in New World Trailer (2004)
10 October 2004
Bedtime stories or prophesy? A child's version of geopolitical cosmologies, tiny bullies and the destruction and creation of worlds.
Crossing Trailer (2016)
01 January 2016
This video materializes an intense phase of exchange between the artists who belong to two distinct generations and contexts.
All Right You Guys Trailer (1976)
01 January 1976
A portrait of Thornton’s sister and a close friend. Shot while studying with cinema verite masters Ed Pincus & Richard Leacock, this early film transgressed documentary norms, shaping its portrait of two women with a formal, almost musical editing schema.
HANDMADE Trailer (2023)
04 November 2023
HANDMADE is a film diptych that juxtaposes natural phenomena with technological discovery. Above, we see the chaotic, digitally manipulated streams of a gale-force storm.
There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving Trailer (1988)
01 January 1988
"A fragmented, experimental biography of the 19th-century poet and writer Isabelle Eberhardt, whose brief, unusual life ended abruptly in a flash flood in the desert.
What I Learned of China from the Sky Trailer (2021)
30 October 2021
2021. China/USA. Filmmaker Leslie Thornton. 1 min. Digital.
Peggy and Fred in Kansas Trailer (1987)
21 September 1987
Peggy and Fred in Kansas is one of the earliest installments in Thornton's Peggy and Fred in Hell series.
Little, Big, and Far Trailer (2026)
30 April 2026
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 for a small island in hopes of finding a sky dark enough to reconnect with the stars.
Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Complete Cycle Trailer (2002)
27 August 2002
"Highly idiosyncratic and deeply creepy, this series as a whole – which includes passages in both film and video, sometimes shown concurrently – represents the most exciting recent work in the American avant-garde, a saga that raises questions about everything while making everything seem very strange.
Adynata Trailer (1983)
02 January 1983
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 West about the East, particularly that which associates femininity with the mysterious Orient.
