The Importance of Fake Blocking

Thursday by Leighton Pierce [1991, 4.5 min, color]

Leighton Pierce's Thursday plays with light, color patterns and texture. Most shots take place indoors looking outside except a series of clips of a wall with shadows of a tree's leaves and branches from behind the camera. The camera is also over-exposed so the light from the sun gives the shot a dream-like feel.

Pierce could have been influenced by his new found captivity of parenthood. The scenes that involve the way light is affected visually (i.e. the light patterns formed from blinds and the different textures that are produced when light is shown through glass) creates a feeling of seclusion and capivity. Even when the viewer is brought outside the house, the viewer stares at a wall and the shadow that is cast upon it.

I can assume that Pierce loves being a parent, but watching Thursday gives me a feeling that Pierce feels a little trapped. Even with his light-hearted editing, the intense warm that is given from the sunlight in the film, and a fun soundtrack (compiled mainly of the sounds emitted by Pierce, the outside noise of children and leaves rustling, and a coffee cup being placed on a table) I can't help but feel Pierce wishes to be somewhere else.

For more information on Leighton Pierce, check out his website at www.leightonpierce.com.

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