Malcolm Le Grice

Known for DirectingBorn 1940-05-15Died 2024-12-03Plymouth, England, United Kingdom

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo

Abstract Cinema

Finnegan's Chin

Little Dog for Roger

Marking Time

Birth of a Nation

Horror Film 2

Berlin Horse

Matrix

Threshold

Emily - Third Party Speculation

Spot the Microdot

60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

Horror Film 1

Jonas

Strontium

Dark Trees

Where When

Finiti

Absinthe

After Monet Water Lilies

Self Portrait After Raban Take Measure

DENISINED - SINEDENIS

Again Finnegan

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

Lecture to an Academy

Art & the 60s

Critical Moments

Digital Aberration

Travelling with Mark

Neither Here Nor There

Joseph's New Coat

Even a Cyclops Pays the Ferryman

Chronos Fragmented

For the Benefit of Mr. K

Balcony Water Colour

Weir

Arbitrary Logic

Heads I Win Tails You Lose

Home Movies 1971-81

Digital Still Life

Blackbird Descending - Tense Alignment

Academic Still Life (Cézanne)

Time & Motion Study

After Manet, After Giorgione – Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe or Fete Champetre

After Lumière – l'Arroseur arrosé

White Field Duration

Gross Fog