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
  • 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
  • 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)
  • 1972
    Love Story 3

    Love Story 3

    Love Story 3

    01972HD

    A person walks backwards and forwards across two white screens casting a shadow, later his actual shadow is joined by pre-filmed shadows performing...

    Love Story 3
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1983
    Finnegan's Chin

    Finnegan's Chin

    Finnegan's Chin

    81983HD

    Directed by Malcolm le Grice.

    Finnegan's Chin
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1993
    Abstract Cinema

    Abstract Cinema

    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...

    Abstract Cinema
  • 2008
    Self Portrait After Raban Take Measure

    Self Portrait After Raban Take Measure

    Self Portrait After Raban Take Measure

    02008HD

    Self Portrait looks for an approach to a specific relationship between the duration of a work and material conditions in the projection as did...

    Self Portrait After Raban Take Measure
  • 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
  • 1998
    Joseph's New Coat

    Joseph's New Coat

    Joseph's New Coat

    01998HD

    This multi-image work is based on Le Grice's longer, color-field film-loop installation Joseph’s Coat (1973).

    Joseph's New Coat
  • 2003
    Travelling with Mark

    Travelling with Mark

    Travelling with Mark

    02003HD

    A digital manipulation exploiting the transcoding ‘mosaic’ of video shot on a train journey from Berlin to southern Germany with Mark...

    Travelling with Mark
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1994
    Balcony Water Colour

    Balcony Water Colour

    Balcony Water Colour

    01994HD

    Colour - Water –Rain – not a water colour – bougainvillea in extreme close-up – touching the lens – swimming pool below...

    Balcony Water Colour
  • 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