CNYPG
welcomes filmmaker
Leslie Thornton.
October
23 - November 1, 2007
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, Tuesday,
October 23
Union College, Scenectady, NY, Thursday,
October 25
Ithaca College, Ithaca, NY, Monday, October
29
Cornell Cinema, Ithaca, NY, Tuesday,
October 30
Binghamton University, Binghamton, NY,
Wednesday, October 31
Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Thursday,
November 1
Leslie
Thornton is an internationally acclaimed media artist working in film, video,
photography and installation. Thornton’s conceptually rigorous and lush
work explores the outer parameters of ethnographic and narrative form. She has
been honored with numerous awards, including the Maya Deren Award and the first
Alpert Award in the Arts for Media; also with Rockefeller Fellowships, and grants
from the NEA, NYSCA, and The Jerome Foundation. Thornton’s works have
been exhibited worldwide, in venues such as the Whitney Biennial, MOMA, capcMusée
d’art Bordeaux, and the Rotterdam, New York, Berlin, Toronto, Buenos Aries
and Seoul Film Festivals. Her work is in the collections of MOMA, Pompidou,
CalArts, Fundacio Antoni Tapies, and others. She is currently a Professor in
Media at Brown University.
"Over the span of thirty years, Leslie Thornton has created one of the
most stunningly original bodies of media arts work. Constantly evolving, her
films and videos explore issues of feminism, representation, semiotics, history,
and colonialism. Her work is steeped in a thoughtful and conceptual analysis
of images, how they are made, and why we look at them. Technically she is an
astute editor, culling much of her material from a vast library of found footage;
she uses this material to turn the narrative on end, to make new meanings and
contexts." -Cinema Project
"Thornton’s place in cinema history has already been assured for the sole reason that she is the author of Peggy and Fred in Hell." -Bill Krohn, Cahiers du Cinéma