Film

Leslie Thornton is an American filmmaker and artist whose career spans five decades. Thornton occupied an important place in cinema history early in her career, straddling structural filmmaking and the feminist avant-garde that would follow, using the materiality of film to interrogate matters of identity. In this program, new shorts screen alongside lesser-seen works made during George W. Bush’s administration, forming a thematic counterpoint to the present political moment and commence BAMcinematek's month-long retrospective of her work. The lineup includes Let Me Count the Ways, Novel City, They Were Just People, So Much Much, and Barbie Melts.