Leighton Pierce

Birthday: 1954-10-27
Birthplace: Rochester, NY, USA
Gender: Male

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

Credits

Year Title
2024-04-23 Wasp Radial
2023-03-22 South Los Angeles Street
2022-03-30 Everything's gonna be OK
2018-08-24 DECK
2016-01-01 Candle Loopedy Loop
2014-09-07 White Ash
2012-03-28 Barbara Hammer Lends a Hand
2010-09-19 Sitting
2010-09-01 Retrograde Premonition
2010-03-23 Sharp Edge Blunt
2010-01-01 I Know, I Know
2008-01-15 Stone Moss
2007-01-01 Number One
2006-09-19 My Person in the Water
2005-01-01 Hammock
2004-01-01 Viscera
2003-09-19 A Private Happiness
2003-01-01 Pink Socks
2002-09-19 37th & Lex.
2002-01-23 Water Seeking its Level
2002-01-01 Fall (3 parts)
2002-01-01 Evaporation
2001-01-01 Veiled Red
2001-01-01 The Back Steps
2000-04-20 Wood
2000-01-01 Folded Time, Take 17
1998-03-21 Glass
1997-01-01 Memories of Water Parts #21, 6, and 27
1996-01-01 Puppy-Go-Round
1995-01-01 50 Feet of String
1994-01-01 Deer Isle #8: Going Out (in the morning)
1993-01-01 Blue Hat
1992-03-17 Red Shovel
1992-01-01 Deer Isle #5: The Crossing
1991-03-21 Thursday
1991-01-01 Principles of Harmonic Motion
1989-01-01 You Can Drive the Big Rigs
1988-01-01 What's Left is Wind
1987-01-01 On the Road Going Through
1986-01-01 Red Swing
1984-01-01 These Are the Directions I Give to a Stranger
1984-01-01 The Miracle of Change
1983-03-11 And Sometimes the Boats Are Low
1982-01-01 Not Much Time
1981-01-01 He Said Without Moving
1980-01-01 He Likes to Chop Down Trees