Peggy and Fred in Kansas (1987) by Leslie Thornton
Saturday, January 28, 1989, 8:00 pm
Leslie Thornton’s PEGGY AND FRED SERIES
Film/Videomaker Leslie Thornton in person
Leslie Thornton, painter turned filmmaker and professor of semiotics, brings to San Francisco the first complete showing of her Peggy and Fred series, Peggy and Fred in Hell (1987), Peggy and Fred in Kansas (1987), and Peggy and Fred and Pete (1988). This epic follows its boy and girl heroes through a densely cluttered, technological-consumer jumble of late-20th century icons. As Peggy and Fred mumble and chant their way through this wasteland, Thornton’s interest in the line between language and thought becomes disturbingly apparent. Following the screening, Thornton and Craig Baldwin, San Francisco filmmaker and curator of ATA’s “Other Cinema” series, will lead a dialogue on creating new alternatives for the distribution of avant-garde film and video.