{"id":756,"date":"2007-03-01T17:39:21","date_gmt":"2007-03-01T23:39:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=756"},"modified":"2025-01-10T08:32:45","modified_gmt":"2025-01-10T14:32:45","slug":"a-home-made-optics-films-videos-by-leighton-pierce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2007\/03\/01\/a-home-made-optics-films-videos-by-leighton-pierce\/","title":{"rendered":"A Home-Made Optics: Films &amp; Videos by Leighton Pierce"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t<strong>Thursday, March 1, 2007, 6pm<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1493\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/100\/2009\/05\/lpeirce-glass450.jpg\" alt=\"lpeirce-glass450\" width=\"450\" height=\"350\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>Leighton Pierce in person!<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"font-style:normal\">Since the 1980s, many of the films and videos of Iowa-based artist Leighton Pierce have painted a lush portrait of Midwestern life. Tonight\u2019s program compiles his rich domestic observations-a gurgling, backyard fountain in <em>Glass <\/em>(1998); the repetitive clatter of children\u2019s feet on the porch in <em>The Back Steps <\/em>(2001); and the plucking of a solitary, stretched length of twine in <em>50 Feet of String <\/em>(1995)-that reveal everyday drama lurking in the quietude. Also on the program are <em>Wood <\/em>(2000) and <em>Puppy-Go-Round <\/em>(1996). Co-presented with the Experimental Film Club at the University of Chicago, which will present <em>A Wandering Optics <\/em>on Friday, March 2.<\/span><\/em> 1995-2001, Leighton Pierce, US, ca. 90 min, various formats.\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday, March 1, 2007, 6pm Leighton Pierce in person! Since the 1980s, many of the films and videos of Iowa-based artist Leighton Pierce have painted a lush portrait of Midwestern life. Tonight\u2019s program compiles his rich domestic observations-a gurgling, backyard fountain in Glass (1998); the repetitive clatter of children\u2019s feet on the porch in The [&#8230;]<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn btn-secondary understrap-read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2007\/03\/01\/a-home-made-optics-films-videos-by-leighton-pierce\/\">Read More&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> from A Home-Made Optics: Films &amp; Videos by Leighton Pierce<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":198,"featured_media":1493,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[115,423],"class_list":["post-756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-12","tag-chicago","tag-monographic-shows"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/198"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=756"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8776,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/756\/revisions\/8776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}