Titles by Leslie Thornton
- Adynata
- Another Worldy
- Bedtime
- Binocular Menagerie
- Chimp for Normal Short
- Have A Nice Day Alone
- Introduction to the So-Called Duck-Factory
- Jennifer, Where Are You?
- Let Me Count the Ways: Minus 10, Minus 9, Minus 8, and Minus 7
- Let Me Count the Ways: Minus 6
- Novel City
- Paradise Crushed
- Peggy and Fred and Pete
- Peggy and Fred in Hell: The Prologue
- Peggy and Fred in Kansas
- Philosophers Walk on the Sublime
- Photography is Easy
- Sahara/Mojave
- SONGS One Two Three
- Strange Space
- The Fold
- The Last Time I Saw Ron
- The Problem So Far
- There Was an Unseen Cloud Moving
- Whirling
- X-TRACTS
- [Dung Smoke Enters the Palace]
Jennifer, Where Are You?
At once charming and disconcerting, Jennifer, Where Are You? depicts a young girl as she sloppily applies lipstick to her face while an unseen male figure calls out her name in search of her. The film, although punctuated at 30-second intervals by the relentless repetition of "Jennifer, where are you?", creates its suspense via disturbances of silence: footage of the girl (perhaps Jennifer), is intercut with black leader, over-exposed bursts of light, and meditative shots of domestic spaces. While "Jennifer" hides in plain sight before our eyes, applying lipstick with alternating expressions of glee and melancholy, Thornton presents a carefully structured comment on the formation of young female identity.
This is a video transfer of a work initially shot on film. This is best shown as a projection, to reflect the original medium.
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