Leighton Pierce

Leighton Pierce[1] 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.[2] He is best known for his impressionistic technique in video imagery that creates a hypnotic effect as well as his use of sound design.[3] The motif of water is dominant in his work and gave the name to the video series "Memories of Water".[4]

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" [5]

He has won over 60 awards [6] from film and experimental festivals, grants such as the Rockefeller, Guggenheim and the National Endowment for the Arts, and has screened his films at the Museum of Modern Art, NY, the Sundance Film Festival, Rotterdam Film Festival, Cinémathèque française, and the Whitney Biennal.

Exhibitions

In 1995, Leighton Pierce's first feature film "50 Feet of String" constructed a domestic space beyond the recognizable and mundanely familiar. [7] 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 in 1996. It also screened at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, the Osnabrück Media Arts Festival, the Image Forum, Japan, Impakt Film Festival, Robert Flaherty Film Seminar and Museum of Modern Art, NY.

In 2009, Leighton exhibited "Agency of Time" at the Sundance Film Festival : a multichannel video and sound installation that created animations from long-exposure photography. The installation was commissioned by the Sheldon Museum of Art. It creates an environment that play with the idea of time, memory and desire.[8]

Filmography

See also

References

  1. ↑ Jon Jost (May 2002). "Leighton Pierce". Retrieved October 10, 2014.
  2. ↑ Christine N. Ziemba (May 2002). "Award Winning Filmmaker Leighton pierce Named Dean of Calarts School of FilmVideo". Retrieved October 10, 2014.
  3. ↑ Bellour, Raymond. Le Corps du Cinema. France: POL Edition. Retrieved September 2014.
  4. ↑ Macdonald, Scott. A Critical Cinema 5: Interviews with Independent Filmmakers. California: University of California Press. pp. 255–290. ISBN 9780520245945.
  5. ↑ Laura Hutson (Oct 23, 2013). "Experimental Filmmaker Leighton Pierce at Vanderbilts StudioVU Tonight". Retrieved October 10, 2014.
  6. ↑ "Cinemad: Leighton Pierce". May 2002. Retrieved October 10, 2014.
  7. ↑ Coombs, Laura. "50 Feet of String". Millennium Film JournalJ (HYBRIDS) 45 (2006). Retrieved 8 October 2014.
  8. ↑ "Agency of Time". Sundance Archives. Retrieved October 6, 2014.

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