Cinema & Comparative Literature
Leighton Pierce |
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| Professor of Cinema and Comparative Literature | ||
| M.F.A. Syracuse | ||
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Background: |
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Leighton Pierce teaches courses in all aspects of video and film production specializing in sound design and experimental modes and is currently the Director of the Film and Video Production Program. His many award-winning experimental and nonfiction short films and videos have been exhibited in major art museums and film festivals throughout the world including The Whitney Biennial, The San Francisco, New York, and Rotterdam Film Festivals. Retrospective presentations of his work have been in venues such as at The Lincoln Center, The Cinémathèque française and Pompidou Center in Paris, the The Lisboa Biennial, The New Zealand Film festival, and EXIS Film Festival in Seoul. In addition to his single channel videos, Pierce has created several large multi-channel videos installations in the last few years. He has received fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, The Guggenheim Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and The Camargo Foundation.
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Research Areas: |
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production of experimental & nonfiction digital video and film; video/sound installation; sound design for film and video; soundscape composition
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Publications and Creative Work: |
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Number One, 2007, 10:05, video With water imagery as the foundation, Number One presents an experience of elasticity between varying states of mind. The contrasts in this multi-image poetic piece are developed in an interwoven relation to each other to both document and invoke the magnetized and elastic push/pull that is the flow of our conscious attention. Screenings: Dallas, AnitMatter (Vancouver), Montreal, EXiS (Seoul), Hong Kong, VAD (Spain) etc. My Person in the Water, 2006, 5:30, video A woman moving in the water and the gaze of a man, both seen from beneath the water, elaborated by the vectorizing force of sound, lead the viewer toward an effervescence of feeling – a desire for merge among the knowledge of separateness. Screenings: Hong Kong, ExiS, New York, Black Maria, Ann Arbor, Athens, etc. Warm Occlusion, 2005-2006, 13 channel video installation Warm Occlusion is a multi-channel video and sound composition designed for the 5500 sq. ft. North Gallery of the University of Iowa Museum of Art. The architectural features of the gallery - six 6’x 3’x 11’ columns arrayed in two rows - serve as sites for twelve 9ft. tall projected video loops. Images wrap all four sides of each column creating ‘video monoliths. The experience is one of diffuse association among the images and the columns as the viewer shifts vantage points while moving through the gallery, never able to see all images at once. A broad sound field envelops and redirects the viewer. The loops are each 13 minutes long. The viewing experience is typically longer due to the polyvalent nature of this installation. Work in Progress: Leaving the Station, a multichannel video project.
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Fall 2007: Modes of Film and Video Production Spring 2008: On leave Fall 2008: Modes of Film and Video Production Film and Video Production Selected Topics
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