Movies: Malcolm Le Grice

An anthology of one-minute films created by 51 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was screened one time only on a purpose-built 20x12 meter public cinema screen in the Port of Tallinn, E...

Abstract art film made for gallery exhibition....

"This installation or performance work puts my own earlier film of the Mona Lisa (1973) through another stage of transformation – my own irretrievable self of some 34 years ago is now also part of the subject I first saw the ‘actual’ ‘Mona Lisa’ when...

Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades....

Two fragments of 8mm home-movie footage shot by the artist near Berlin weave together in repeating cycles of action, temporal manipulation, and colour distortion, heightening the viewer’s awareness of film-time and the film-image, and perception of c...

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

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

Directed by Malcolm Le Grice. "It nears the end of the political paranoid works using found military documentary images. It explores a complex form of loop permutation in both the image and sound track."...

"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 memory. There have been a number of versions of the material I shot in about 1984 of water lilies and reeds in ...

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

Music J S Bach digitally reconstructed by Le Grice....

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

Loops. "A four screen film projection onto four vertically placed screens, which span the gallery space from floor to ceiling. The wall surface is transformed into a rippling column of colour, accompanied by a soundtrack of running water. First shown...

A person walks backwards and forwards across two white screens casting a shadow, later his actual shadow is joined by pre-filmed shadows performing the same actions. Gradually the actions within the film deviates from what is directly possible for th...

Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years....

Le déjeuner sur l’herbe is simultaneously perceived from four different camera positions in a work which engages with the pro-filmic in order to question documentation, illusion and the film viewing process....

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

"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 been intentionally scratched providing another layer of content and the source of the sound track. M...

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 film progresses from simplicity to complexity… With the film’s culmination in representational, phot...

Film shadow performance. "First presented in 1971 using three 16mm projectors each with a short loop of changing colour. Projected onto the same screen – the centre image large and the two side images smaller and superimposed into the centre of the ...