Malcolm Le Grice Movies

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...

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,...

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

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

Osama Bin Laden – Britain and the USA in Iraq as through television reportage – camera only inches from the screen

From the earliest point when I started to make film one of the biggest influence on my way of thinking came from Franz Kafka. In particular the...

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...

Loops. "A four screen film projection onto four vertically placed screens, which span the gallery space from floor to ceiling. The wall surface is...

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

Le déjeuner sur l’herbe is simultaneously perceived from four different camera positions in a work which engages with the pro-filmic in...

Four simple changing colour loops are projected continuously into the corners of a gallery space - a form of site specific film sculpture. film-loop...

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

‘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...

Every cheap visual effect in the editing package and a sound track made with free software from a corn-flakes packet.

Originally the work was presented as a pre-ordered sequence of 35mm slides showing two unknown people walking around the wall of a sea-side swimming...

"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...

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

Two fragments of 8mm home-movie footage shot by the artist near Berlin weave together in repeating cycles of action, temporal manipulation, and...

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

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