Leslie Thornton
Leslie Thornton ( born 1951 in Knoxville, Tennessee) is an American filmmaker and artist.
Biography
In his early years, Leslie Thornton dealt with the avant-garde cinema, by weekly film screenings in the area of experimental film in a Unitarian Church in Schenectady, New York visited, . The experience gained there influenced Thorntons aesthetic point of view. In the early 1970s, she focused on the field of painting and produced a large amount of paintings. So Thomas Zummer wrote in Senses of Cinema: " Thornton's paintings bring a sensual, expressionistic hand in a strict, formal, geometric association ".
Leslie Thornton attended the State University of New York at Buffalo, New York. During her studies she worked with filmmakers like Hollis Frampton, Paul Sharits, Stan Brakhage and Peter Kubelka. At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Cambridge, Massachusetts, she studied with Richard Leacock and Ed Pincus.
Thornton received, inter alia, 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, the New York State Council on the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Jerome Foundation and Art Matters.
She lives in New York and Rhode Iceland. Thornton is mainly concerned with the creation of experimental films. Thornton is a professor for new culture and media at Brown University.
Work
Leslie Thornton's film and media works have been exhibited around the world, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Biennial, the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, at the International Film Festival Rotterdam, the New York Film Festival, in 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, published in Cahiers du Cinema The 60 most important American directors.
Leslie Thornton's Peggy and Fred in Hell project was awarded in numerous annual leaderboards including the New York Times and the Village Voice.
Filmography
- Adynata (1983, the title of experimental film means as much as the impossibility [ disengage something ] )
Books of their
- Leslie Thornton: always tuned to a shifting ground. San Francisco Cinematheque, 2008
- Leslie Thornton: recent sculpture 1969
Literature about it
- Leslie Thornton. Su Friedrich, Abigail Child and In: Jean Petr Olle; Virginia Wright Wexman: Women and experimental filmmaking. University of Illinois Press, 2005, ISBN 0252030060, pp. 19 ff