Malcolm Le Grice Movies

  • 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
  • 1965
    China Tea

    China Tea

    China Tea

    01965HD

    Shot with two 8mm cameras then projected side by side accompanied by an audio tape of "prepared piano".

    China Tea
  • 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
  • 1967
    Talla

    Talla

    Talla

    01967HD

    Rocky, granite outcrops, a derelict quarry-worker and Dartmoor prison.

    Talla
  • 1973
    Matrix

    Matrix

    Matrix

    6.41973HD

    Abstract art film made for gallery exhibition.

    Matrix
  • 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
  • 1971
    Love Story 1

    Love Story 1

    Love Story 1

    01971HD

    A one-off performance, never repeated but led to Horror Film 1.

    Love Story 1
  • 1971
    Your Lips 3

    Your Lips 3

    Your Lips 3

    01971HD

    A re-worked version of Your Lips 1 with multiple colour superimpositions. Originally shown with a soundtrack from computer artist Alan Sutcliffe but...

    Your Lips 3
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1984
    Digital Still Life

    Digital Still Life

    Digital Still Life

    01984HD

    Digital Still Life was originally made for projection directly from an Atari computer. The same computer programme defines the image sequence, the...

    Digital Still Life
  • 1970
    Reign of the Vampire

    Reign of the Vampire

    Reign of the Vampire

    01970HD

    Directed by Malcolm Le Grice. "It nears the end of the political paranoid works using found military documentary images. It explores a complex form...

    Reign of the Vampire
  • 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
    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)
  • 1974
    After Lumière – l'Arroseur arrosé

    After Lumière – l'Arroseur arrosé

    After Lumière – l'Arroseur arrosé

    01974HD

    "Like all the works I have done which refer directly to another artist, After Lumière… is not directly 'about' the Lumière...

    After Lumière – l'Arroseur arrosé
  • 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)