Malcolm Le Grice
Born in May 1940, Malcolm Le Grice started as a painter but began to make film and computer works in the mid 1960's. Since then he has shown regularly in Europe and the USA and his work has been screened in many international film festivals. He has also shown in major art exhibitions like the Paris Biennale No.8, Arte Inglese Oggi, Milan, Une Histoire du Cinema, Paris, Documenta 6, Kassel, X-Screen at the Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, and Behind the Facts at the Fondacion Joan Miro, Barcelona. His work has been screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Louvre Museum in Paris and the Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London and is in permanent collections including: the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Royal Belgian Film Archive, Brussels; the National Film Library of Australia, Canberra; German Cinamatheque Archive, Berlin; Canadian Distribution Centre, Montreal and Archives du Film Experimental D'Avignon. A number of longer films have been transmitted on British TV, including 'Finnegans Chin', 'Sketches for a Sensual Philosophy' and 'Chronos Fragmented'. His main work since the mid 1980's is in video and digital media and includes the multi-projection video installation works 'The Cyclops Cycle' and 'Treatise'.
Le Grice has written critical and theoretical work including a history of experimental cinema 'Abstract Film and Beyond' (1977, Studio Vista and MIT). For three years in the 1970's he wrote a regular column for the art monthly Studio International and has published numerous other articles on film, video and digital media. Many of these have been collected and recently published under the title 'Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age' by the British Film Institute (2001).
Le Grice is a Professor Emeritus of the University of the Arts London where he is a collaborating director with David Curtis of the British Artists Film and Video Study Collection.
Known For | Directing |
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Most Rating | 1.127 |
Birthday | 1940-05-15 |
Place of Birth | Plymouth, England, United Kingdom |
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1985
Home Movies 1971-81
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Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.
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Home Movies 1971-81
2004
Art & the 60s
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Documentary about British Art in the 60's produced by the BBC starting with Fraser and Kasmin, moving to the modern sculpture movement lead by Caro la...
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Art & the 60s
1971
Horror Film 1
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Film shadow performance. "First presented in 1971 using three 16mm projectors each with a short loop of changing colour. Projected onto the same scre...
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Horror Film 1
1997
Birth of a Nation
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Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.
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Birth of a Nation
1979
Emily - Third Party Speculation
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Emily - Third Party Speculation is the second of a ‘domestic trilogy’ exploring the relationship between the restricted camera viewpoint and the const...
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Emily - Third Party Speculation
1993
Abstract Cinema
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Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and their...
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Abstract Cinema
2016
Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo
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"This installation or performance work puts my own earlier film of the Mona Lisa (1973) through another stage of transformation – my own irretrievable...
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Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo
1975
After Manet, After Giorgione – Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe or Fete Champetre
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Le déjeuner sur l’herbe is simultaneously perceived from four different camera positions in a work which engages with the pro-filmic in order to quest...
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