Malcolm Le Grice Movies

  • 1986
    Heads I Win Tails You Lose

    Heads I Win Tails You Lose

    Heads I Win Tails You Lose

    01986HD

    First titled Jazz Punk, this work is based on a series of drawings I made over a number of years of heads inspired in part by punk styles. These were...

    Heads I Win Tails You Lose
  • 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
  • 1995
    Chronos Fragmented

    Chronos Fragmented

    Chronos Fragmented

    01995HD

    A video work based on video8 and hi8 material shot over six years. Chronos is the Titian – the time god who rules the universe – the flux...

    Chronos Fragmented
  • 1968
    Castle Two

    Castle Two

    Castle Two

    01968HD

    Found film sequences brought together in the paranoia of the cold war and Vietnam.

    Castle Two
  • 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
  • 2006
    H2O-0C-24.02.06-12.01GMT - 03,50.40W - 50.16.30N

    H2O-0C-24.02.06-12.01GMT - 03,50.40W - 50.16.30N

    H2O-0C-24.02.06-12.01GMT - 03,50.40W - 50.16.30N

    02006HD

    A simple event becomes rhythmically complex through changes of speed and multiple superimposition. The title refers to the inevitable inclusion of...

    H2O-0C-24.02.06-12.01GMT - 03,50.40W - 50.16.30N
  • 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
  • 1973
    Pre-Production

    Pre-Production

    Pre-Production

    01973HD

    Illuminated by two blank screens projected from empty slides, four performers read texts drawn from the history of cinema – a dictionary of...

    Pre-Production
  • 1972
    Threshold

    Threshold

    Threshold

    6.3331972HD

    Le Grice no longer simply uses the printer as a reflexive mechanism, but utilises the possibilities of colour-shift and permutation of imagery as the...

    Threshold
  • 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
  • 1979
    Emily - Third Party Speculation

    Emily - Third Party Speculation

    Emily - Third Party Speculation

    61979HD

    Emily - Third Party Speculation is the second of a ‘domestic trilogy’ exploring the relationship between the restricted camera viewpoint...

    Emily - Third Party Speculation
  • 2019
    Dark Trees

    Dark Trees

    Dark Trees

    02019HD

    Dark Trees starts with a view from a window in silhouette through which one sees a garden, tall trees, rooftops and the sea. This scene orientates...

    Dark Trees
  • 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
  • 1977
    Blackbird Descending - Tense Alignment

    Blackbird Descending - Tense Alignment

    Blackbird Descending - Tense Alignment

    01977HD

    A brilliantly constructed, melancholic ode to the passing of time by Malcolm Le Grice.

    Blackbird Descending - Tense Alignment
  • 2010
    Absinthe

    Absinthe

    Absinthe

    02010HD

    In October 2009 I did a show in Prague. I returned to the Kafka house of my ‘Benefit of Mr K’ but found the whole street and Castle area...

    Absinthe
  • 1972
    Whitchurch Down (Duration)

    Whitchurch Down (Duration)

    Whitchurch Down (Duration)

    01972HD

    This film is the beginning of an examination of the perceptual and conceptual structures which can be dealt with using pure colour sequences in loop...

    Whitchurch Down (Duration)
  • 1983
    Finnegan's Chin

    Finnegan's Chin

    Finnegan's Chin

    81983HD

    Directed by Malcolm le Grice.

    Finnegan's Chin
  • 2015
    Where When

    Where When

    Where When

    02015HD

    Malcolm Le Grice - 3D.

    Where When
  • 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
  • 2021
    Strontium

    Strontium

    Strontium

    02021HD

    The travelogue footage that appears here – the landscape rushing by, fragments of cityscapes, figures in cafes, forests, and beaches – is...

    Strontium