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Leslie Thornton

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Leslie Thornton (born 1951) is an American avant-garde filmmaker and artist. [1]

69 relations: Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design, Brown University, Cahiers du cinéma, California Institute of the Arts, Carnegie Mellon University, Centre Georges Pompidou, Connecticut Public Television, Digital video, Ed Pincus, Electronic Arts Intermix, Ethnography, European Graduate School, Experimental film, Film Comment, Found footage (appropriation), Franz Boas, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Harvard University, HDV, High-definition video, Hollis Frampton, Industrial Revolution, Jerome Hill, Jeu de paume, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Knoxville, Tennessee, Light cone, LUX (UK film company), Manhattan Project, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Museum of Modern Art, National Endowment for the Arts, New England Film & Video Festival, New media art, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York State Council on the Arts, New York University, Newark Museum, Oak Ridge, Tennessee, Paul Sharits, Peter Kubelka, Princeton University, Providence, Rhode Island, Queen's University, Richard Leacock, Rockefeller Foundation, Ron Vawter, Schenectady, New York, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, ..., Science fiction, Senses of Cinema, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Stan Brakhage, Stephen Holden, The New York Times, The Village Voice, Thomas Edison, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Tufts University, University at Buffalo, University of California, San Diego, University of Notre Dame, Video, Video Data Bank, Walker Art Center, Women Make Movies, 16 mm film. Expand index (19 more) »

Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive

The Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA) are a combined art museum and repertory movie theater and archive, associated with the University of California, Berkeley.

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Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design

Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design is Israel's national school of art.

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Brown University

Brown University is a private Ivy League research university in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.

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Cahiers du cinéma

Cahiers du Cinéma (Notebooks on Cinema) is a French film magazine founded in 1951 by André Bazin, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Joseph-Marie Lo Duca.

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California Institute of the Arts

The California Institute of the Arts, known by its nickname CalArts, is a private university located in Valencia, California.

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Carnegie Mellon University

Carnegie Mellon University (commonly known as CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Centre Georges Pompidou

Centre Georges Pompidou, commonly shortened to Centre Pompidou and also known as the Pompidou Centre in English, is a complex building in the Beaubourg area of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, near Les Halles, rue Montorgueil, and the Marais.

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Connecticut Public Television

Connecticut Public Television (CPTV) is the PBS member network for the U.S. state of Connecticut.

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Digital video

Digital video is an electronic representation of moving visual images (video) in the form of encoded digital data.

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Ed Pincus

Edward Ralph Pincus (July 6, 1938 – November 5, 2013) studied philosophy and photography at Harvard, and began filmmaking in 1964, developing a direct cinema approach to social and political problems.

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Electronic Arts Intermix

Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) is a nonprofit arts organization that is a leading international resource for video and media art.

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Ethnography

Ethnography (from Greek ἔθνος ethnos "folk, people, nation" and γράφω grapho "I write") is the systematic study of people and cultures.

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European Graduate School

The European Graduate School (EGS) is a cross-disciplinary institution of higher education awarding Masters and Doctoral degrees within its two divisions: Arts, Health and Society (AHS), and Philosophy, Art and Critical Thought (PACT).

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Experimental film

Experimental film, experimental cinema or avant-garde cinema is a mode of filmmaking that rigorously re-evaluates cinematic conventions and explores non-narrative forms and alternatives to traditional narratives or methods of working.

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Film Comment

Film Comment is an arts and culture magazine now published by the Film Society of Lincoln Center, of which it is the official publication.

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Found footage (appropriation)

In filmmaking, found footage is the use of footage as a found object, appropriated for use in collage films, documentary films, mockumentary films and other works.

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Franz Boas

Franz Uri Boas (July 9, 1858December 21, 1942) was a German-American anthropologist and a pioneer of modern anthropology who has been called the "Father of American Anthropology".

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Fundació Antoni Tàpies

The Fundació Antoni Tàpies ('Antoni Tàpies Foundation') is a cultural center and museum, located in Carrer d'Aragó, in Barcelona, Catalonia.

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Harvard University

Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

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HDV

HDV is a format for recording of high-definition video on DV cassette tape.

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High-definition video

High-definition video is video of higher resolution and quality than standard-definition.

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Hollis Frampton

Hollis Frampton (March 11, 1936 – March 30, 1984) was an American avant-garde filmmaker, photographer, writer/theoretician, and pioneer of digital art.

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Industrial Revolution

The Industrial Revolution was the transition to new manufacturing processes in the period from about 1760 to sometime between 1820 and 1840.

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Jerome Hill

Jerome Hill (March 2, 1905 – November 21, 1972) was an American filmmaker and artist.

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Jeu de paume

Jeu de paume ("palm game") is a ball-and-court game that originated in France.

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Jonathan Rosenbaum

Jonathan Rosenbaum (born February 27, 1943) is an American film critic.

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Knoxville, Tennessee

Knoxville is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Knox County.

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Light cone

In special and general relativity, a light cone is the path that a flash of light, emanating from a single event (localized to a single point in space and a single moment in time) and traveling in all directions, would take through spacetime.

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LUX (UK film company)

LUX is the principal centre for the promotion and distribution of experimental film and video works in the UK.

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Manhattan Project

The Manhattan Project was a research and development undertaking during World War II that produced the first nuclear weapons.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States.

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Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is an art museum located in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenues.

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National Endowment for the Arts

The National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) is an independent agency of the United States federal government that offers support and funding for projects exhibiting artistic excellence.

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New England Film & Video Festival

The New England Film & Video Festival, founded in 1976, was a leading regional independent and student film festival, and was the longest running regional film festival in the United States until it ceased to be held following the 2007 festival.

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New media art

New media art refers to artworks created with new media technologies, including digital art, computer graphics, computer animation, virtual art, Internet art, interactive art, video games, computer robotics, 3D printing, cyborg art and art as biotechnology.

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New York Foundation for the Arts

The New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) is an independent 501(c)3 charity, funded through government, foundation, corporate, and individual support, established in 1971.

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New York State Council on the Arts

The New York State Council on the Arts (NYSCA) is an arts council serving the U.S. state of New York.

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New York University

New York University (NYU) is a private nonprofit research university based in New York City.

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Newark Museum

The Newark Museum, in Newark, Essex County, New Jersey, United States, is the state's largest museum.

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Oak Ridge, Tennessee

Oak Ridge is a city in Anderson and Roane counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about west of Knoxville.

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Paul Sharits

Paul Jeffrey Sharits (February 7, 1943, Denver, Colorado—July 8, 1993, Buffalo, New York) was a visual artist, best known for his work in experimental, or avant-garde filmmaking, particularly what became known as the structural film movement, along with other artists such as Tony Conrad, Hollis Frampton, and Michael Snow.

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Peter Kubelka

Peter Kubelka (born 23 March 1934 in Vienna, Austria) is an Austrian experimental filmmaker, architect, musician, curator and lecturer.

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Princeton University

Princeton University is a private Ivy League research university in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Providence, Rhode Island

Providence is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Rhode Island and is one of the oldest cities in the United States.

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Queen's University

Queen's University at Kingston (commonly shortened to Queen's University or Queen's) is a public research university in Kingston, Ontario, Canada.

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Richard Leacock

Richard Leacock (18 July 192123 March 2011) was a British-born documentary film director and one of the pioneers of Direct Cinema and Cinéma vérité.

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Rockefeller Foundation

The Rockefeller Foundation is a private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City.

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Ron Vawter

Ron Vawter (December 9, 1948 – April 16, 1994) was an American actor and a founding member of the experimental theater company The Wooster Group.

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Schenectady, New York

Schenectady is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat.

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School of the Art Institute of Chicago

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) is one of America's largest accredited independent schools of art and design.

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Science fiction

Science fiction (often shortened to Sci-Fi or SF) is a genre of speculative fiction, typically dealing with imaginative concepts such as advanced science and technology, spaceflight, time travel, and extraterrestrial life.

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Senses of Cinema

Senses of Cinema is a quarterly online film magazine founded in 1999 by filmmaker Bill Mousoulis.

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Smithsonian American Art Museum

The Smithsonian American Art Museum (commonly known as SAAM, and formerly the National Museum of American Art) is a museum in Washington, D.C., part of the Smithsonian Institution.

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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, often referred to as The Guggenheim, is an art museum located at 1071 Fifth Avenue on the corner of East 89th Street in the Upper East Side neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City.

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Stan Brakhage

James Stanley Brakhage (January 14, 1933 – March 9, 2003), better known as Stan Brakhage, was an American non-narrative filmmaker.

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Stephen Holden

Stephen Holden (born July 18, 1941) is an American writer, music critic, film critic, and poet.

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The New York Times

The New York Times (sometimes abbreviated as The NYT or The Times) is an American newspaper based in New York City with worldwide influence and readership.

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The Village Voice

The Village Voice is an American news and culture paper, known for being the country's first alternative newsweekly.

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Thomas Edison

Thomas Alva Edison (February 11, 1847October 18, 1931) was an American inventor and businessman, who has been described as America's greatest inventor.

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Three Rivers Arts Festival

Three Rivers Arts Festival is an outdoor music and arts festival held each June in the Downtown district of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

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Tufts University

Tufts University is a private research university incorporated in the municipality of Medford, Massachusetts, United States.

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University at Buffalo

The State University of New York at Buffalo is a public research university with campuses in Buffalo and Amherst, New York, United States.

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University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, in the United States.

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University of Notre Dame

The University of Notre Dame du Lac (or simply Notre Dame or ND) is a private, non-profit Catholic research university in the community of Notre Dame, Indiana, near the city of South Bend, in the United States.

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Video

Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media.

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Video Data Bank

Video Data Bank (VDB) is an international video art distribution organization and resource in the United States for videos by and about contemporary artists.

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Walker Art Center

The Walker Art Center is a multidisciplinary contemporary art center in the Lowry Hill neighborhood of Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States.

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Women Make Movies

Women Make Movies is a non-profit feminist media arts organization based in New York City.

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16 mm film

16 mm film is a historically popular and economical gauge of film.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leslie_Thornton

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