Peggy and Fred in Hell
Chicago Filmmakers
Critic's Choice - Chicago Reader
"Leslie Thornton's remarkable, mind-boggling experimental feature-length cycle of short films which she's been working on and releasing in episodes since 1981 is a post-apocalyptic narrative about two children feeling their way through the refuse of late-20th-century consumer culture;
10/18/96 - 10/18/96
8:00pm
Apart from one startling and beautiful color shot in the penultimate episode, Whirling, the whole cycle is in black and white. (Episodes that have been added since an earlier version of the cycle showed in Chicago six years ago include Introduction to the So-Called Duck Factory and The Problem So Far.) Highly idiosyncratic and deeply creepy, this series as a whole - which includes passages in both film and video, sometimes shown concurrently - represents the most exciting recent work in the American avant-garde, a saga that raises questions about everything while making everything seem very strange"