Leighton Pierce
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Leighton Pierce Cite error: The <ref> tag has too many names (see the help page). born John Leighton Pierce (27 October 1954, Rochester, NY) is an American experimental filmmaker who works with film, video, sound, and installation. He is also the Dean of the School of Film/Video at CalArts since the summer of 2014 [1].
He is best known for using an impressionistic technique that creates a hypnotic effect as well as his use of sound design. Bellour, Raymond. Le Corps du Cinema. France: POL Edition. Retrieved September,2014. {{cite book}}: Check date values in: |accessdate= (help) The motif of water is dominant in his work and gave the name to one of his best known series "Memories of Water".
Pierce looks for inspiration in his immediate surroundings. He has stated that "in the simplest terms, a film or a video can be considered to be a meaningful experience in time. As a filmmaker, I take that as my mission: through the use of image and sound, I am composing an experience for the audience" Laura Hutson (Oct 23, 2013). "Experimental Filmmaker Leighton Pierce at Vanderbilts StudioVU Tonight". Retrieved October 10, 2014.</ref>
He has won over 60 awards [2] from film and experimental festivals, grants such as the Rockefeller, Guggenheim and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has screened his films at Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Cinémathèque française, Whitney Biennal.
Exhibitions
In 1995, Leighton Pierce's feature experimental film "50 Feet of String" constructed a domestic space beyond the recognizable and mundanely familiar. Coombs, Laura. "50 Feet of String". Millenium Film JournalJ. 45 (2006). HYBRIDS. Retrieved 8 October 2014. The film won Best of Fest at the Ann Arbor Film Festival (1996); Best Experimental at the Atlanta Film and Video Festival (1996); Best Experimental at the Athens Film Festival (1996); Juror's Citation at Black Maria Film and Video Festival (1996). It also screened at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival; Osnabruck Media Arts Festival; Image Forum, Japan; Impakt Film Festival; Robert Flaherty Film Seminar and Museum of Modern Art, NY.
In 2009, Leighton exhibited at the Sundance Film Festival a multichannel video and sound installation "Agency of Time" that created animations from long-exposure photography. The installation was commissioned by the Sheldon Museum of Art. The multichannel installation creates an environment that play with the idea of time, memory and desire. "Agency of Time". Sundance Archives. Retrieved October 6, 2014.
Filmography
- He Likes to Chop Down Trees (1980)
- You Can Drive the Big Rigs (1981)
- Deer Isle, The Crossing (1991)
- Thursday (1991)
- Red Shovel (1992)
- 50 Feet of String (1995)
- Puppy-Go-Round (1996)
- Memories of Water #21 (1997)
- Glass (1998)
- Folded Time, Take 17 (2000)
- The Back Steps (2001)
- Veiled Red! (2001)
- Fall (3 parts) (2002)
- Evaporation (2002)
- 37th & Lex' (2002)
- Pink Socks (2002)
- Water Seeking Its Level (2002)
- Viscera (2004)
- My Person in the Water (2006)
- Warm Occlusion' (2006)
- Number One (2007)
- Agency of Timel (2008-2009)
- Stone Moss (2009)
- Sitting (2010)
- Retrograde Premonition (2010)
- Sharp Edge Blunt (2010)
- band Orphan, Halloween Performance (2010)
- White Ash (2014)
See also
- 'The Garden in the Machine: Scott Macdonald (ed.): Leighton Pierce (USA: Oxford University Press, 2004) (English)
- 'Interview at Ann Arbour: AAFF50: Leighton Pierce (2011, 1:39min)
References
- ^ Christine N. Ziemba (May, 2002). "Award Winning Filmmaker Leighton pierce Named Dean of Calarts School of FilmVideo". Retrieved October 10, 2014.
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