Career
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"
In 1995, Leighton Pierce"s first feature film "50 Feet of String" constructed a domestic space beyond the recognizable and mundanely familiar.
lieutenant also screened at the Oberhausen Short Film Festival, the Osnabrück Media Arts Festival, the Image Forum, Japan, Impakt Film Festival, Robert Flaherty Film Seminar and Museum of Modern Art, New New York In 2009, Leighton exhibited "Agency of Time" at the Sundance Film Festival: a multichannel video and sound installation that created animations from long-exposure photography. The installation was commissioned by the Sheldon Museum of Artist
lieutenant creates an environment that play with the idea of time, memory and desire.