Malcolm Le Grice Movies

  • 1997
    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    6.31997HD

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

    Birth of a Nation
  • 1973
    Matrix

    Matrix

    Matrix

    5.91973HD

    Abstract art film made for gallery exhibition.

    Matrix
  • 1995
    For the Benefit of Mr. K

    For the Benefit of Mr. K

    For the Benefit of Mr. K

    01995HD

    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...

    For the Benefit of Mr. K
  • 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
  • 2001
    Neither Here Nor There

    Neither Here Nor There

    Neither Here Nor There

    02001HD

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

    Neither Here Nor There
  • 1970
    Berlin Horse

    Berlin Horse

    Berlin Horse

    71970HD

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

    Berlin Horse
  • 2015
    Marking Time

    Marking Time

    Marking Time

    72015HD

    "3D Video SBS (side by side) format. For viewing on 3D monitor or television" -Le Grice

    Marking Time
  • 1967
    Little Dog for Roger

    Little Dog for Roger

    Little Dog for Roger

    81967HD

    A nostalgic exploration, comprising fragments of reworked 9.5mm home movie footage. The deterioration of the original film, like memories,...

    Little Dog for Roger
  • 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
  • 1985
    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    01985HD

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

    Home Movies 1971-81
  • 1993
    Abstract Cinema

    Abstract Cinema

    Abstract Cinema

    81993HD

    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
  • 1972
    Threshold

    Threshold

    Threshold

    6.51972HD

    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...

    Threshold
  • 2016
    Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo

    Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo

    Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo

    102016HD

    "This installation or performance work puts my own earlier film of the Mona Lisa (1973) through another stage of transformation – my own...

    Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo
  • 1975
    After Manet, After Giorgione – Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe or Fete Champetre

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

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

    01975HD

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

    After Manet, After Giorgione – Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe or Fete Champetre
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 1984
    Digital Still Life

    Digital Still Life

    Digital Still Life

    01984HD

    A single performance made at the National Film Theatre against a blank screen – the performer twice leaves the stage on one side, exits the...

    Digital Still Life
  • 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