Malcolm Le Grice Movies

  • 1971
    Horror Film 1

    Horror Film 1

    Horror Film 1

    41971HD

    Film shadow performance. "First presented in 1971 using three 16mm projectors each with a short loop of changing colour. Projected onto the same...

    Horror Film 1
  • 2004
    Digital Aberration

    Digital Aberration

    Digital Aberration

    02004HD

    Every cheap visual effect in the editing package and a sound track made with free software from a corn-flakes packet.

    Digital Aberration
  • 2008
    After Monet Water Lilies

    After Monet Water Lilies

    After Monet Water Lilies

    02008HD

    "My experience of Monet’s large-scale panoramic paintings of his water lily garden when I was about 14 years old became a crucial artistic...

    After Monet Water Lilies
  • 2001
    Neither Here Nor There

    Neither Here Nor There

    Neither Here Nor There

    02001HD

    Osama Bin Laden – Britain and the USA in Iraq as through television reportage – camera only inches from the screen

    Neither Here Nor There
  • 1976
    Time & Motion Study

    Time & Motion Study

    Time & Motion Study

    01976HD

    The first of these is the simple domestic task of washing dishes, and the second is the aesthetic task of filming the first task. I, the filmmaker,...

    Time & Motion Study
  • 1970
    Lucky Pigs

    Lucky Pigs

    Lucky Pigs

    01970HD

    Yes – just looping images of pigs on three screens with a tape sound track of a Chinese pop song.

    Lucky Pigs
  • 2015
    Marking Time

    Marking Time

    Marking Time

    72015HD

    "3D Video SBS (side by side) format. For viewing on 3D monitor or television" -Le Grice

    Marking Time
  • 1972
    Blue Field Duration

    Blue Field Duration

    Blue Field Duration

    01972HD

    "This is a two screen film where a full frame colour field slowly changes from blue to towards green over a period of about six minutes. The film has...

    Blue Field Duration
  • 1973
    Four Wall Duration

    Four Wall Duration

    Four Wall Duration

    01973HD

    Four simple changing colour loops are projected continuously into the corners of a gallery space - a form of site specific film sculpture. film-loop...

    Four Wall Duration
  • 2004
    Critical Moments

    Critical Moments

    Critical Moments

    02004HD

    ‘Critical Moment One’ was an un-planned recording of a one-year old boy exploring shells and sand on a beach. Though the boy was my own...

    Critical Moments
  • 1998
    Even a Cyclops Pays the Ferryman

    Even a Cyclops Pays the Ferryman

    Even a Cyclops Pays the Ferryman

    01998HD

    An allegory for the passage from being alive to being dead. The cyclops is the one-eyed father - the one-eyed king in the land of the blind - the...

    Even a Cyclops Pays the Ferryman
  • 1987
    Arbitrary Logic

    Arbitrary Logic

    Arbitrary Logic

    01987HD

    Arbitrary Logic, an interactive audio-visual synthesiser was first presented under the working title Osnabruk at the Osnabruk festival of 1987 and...

    Arbitrary Logic
  • 1993
    Weir

    Weir

    Weir

    01993HD

    An encounter with a small man-made waterfall presented in a triptych format.

    Weir
  • 2013
    Jonas

    Jonas

    Jonas

    12013HD

    An impromptu portrait of Jonas Mekas shot at the Serpentine Gallery, London on the occasion of a celebration of his 90th birthday. All made in a...

    Jonas
  • 1977
    Academic Still Life (Cézanne)

    Academic Still Life (Cézanne)

    Academic Still Life (Cézanne)

    01977HD

    As the title indicates this is a deliberately academic work, conceived in much the same way that a composer might make a 'study'. It is not about a...

    Academic Still Life (Cézanne)
  • 1984
    Digital Still Life

    Digital Still Life

    Digital Still Life

    01984HD

    A single performance made at the National Film Theatre against a blank screen – the performer twice leaves the stage on one side, exits the...

    Digital Still Life
  • 2005
    Lecture to an Academy

    Lecture to an Academy

    Lecture to an Academy

    02005HD

    When I reviewed the video material it reminded me of a theatre performance which I recalled as “A Lecture to an Academy”, given by Tutte...

    Lecture to an Academy
  • 1972
    Horror Film 2

    Horror Film 2

    Horror Film 2

    71972HD

    Film performance, using a back projection screen as well as several projection sources, including a red and green source close together (requires 3D...

    Horror Film 2
  • 1969
    Spot the Microdot

    Spot the Microdot

    Spot the Microdot

    61969HD

    This film was made by punching circular holes into fully opaque film stock and laying discs of colour film into some of the punched holes. Only the...

    Spot the Microdot
  • 1967
    Yes No Maybe Maybe Not

    Yes No Maybe Maybe Not

    Yes No Maybe Maybe Not

    01967HD

    A double projection of images of lapping water and the Battersea Power Station all transformed by negative positive superimposition creating a moving...

    Yes No Maybe Maybe Not