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Leslie Thornton

Born 1959 - Knoxville. Tennessee

Leslie Thornton is a painter turned video- and filmmaker who teaches in the Modern Culture and Media Program at Brown University. Her lush, complex works explore the mechanisms of desire and meaning, while probing past the boundaries of language and narrative conventions.  Difficult to categorize or describe, Thornton’s works are steeped in theoretical interest and filled with rich and intuitive imagery in experimental narratives crossing science fiction, ethnographic, and documentary forms. 


Available Titles by Leslie Thornton

Title Year Runtime Collection
Dung Smoke Enters the Palace 1989 00:16:00 Single Titles
The Last Time I Saw Ron 1994 00:12:11 Single Titles
Peggy and Fred and Pete 1988 00:22:10 Single Titles
Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Prologue 1984 00:20:00 Single Titles
Peggy and Fred in Kansas 1989 00:11:00 Single Titles
Strange Space 1993 00:03:53 Single Titles
There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving 1988 00:58:00 Single Titles
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