An evening with Leslie Thornton, acclaimed avant-garde filmmaker and professor of Modern Culture and Media from Brown University.
Acclaimed avant-garde filmmaker Leslie Thornton, the only woman experimental filmmaker included in the prestigious French film magazine Cahiers du cinema's "60 Most Important American Directors" issue, visits UCSC. Learn more about her amazing career in experimental film and her take on digital as the "repository of everything".
Thornton’s extensive body of work has also garnered her many prestigious awards throughout her career including 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, New York State Council on the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, Jerome Foundation, and Art Matters.
The event is part of the Porter College / Film + Digital Media visiting artist series.
Watch Thornton's film X-TRACTS here.
Free and open to the public.
Parking $3 at Core West Parking Structure (pay at paystation)
photo: still from “Peggy and Fred in Hell” series (1985-2010)