Malcolm Le Grice Movies

A simple event becomes rhythmically complex through changes of speed and multiple superimposition. The title refers to the inevitable inclusion of...

Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and their...

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...

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

This film was made by punching circular holes into fully opaque film stock and laying discs of colour film into some of the punched holes. Only the...

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

Film shadow performance. "First presented in 1971 using three 16mm projectors each with a short loop of changing colour. Projected onto the same...

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...

Directed by Malcolm le Grice.

A one-off performance, never repeated but led to Horror Film 1.

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

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...

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,...

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

A white screen marked only by a scratch running across clear celluloid activates an intense perception of projection time. A double-projection work.

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

A re-worked version of Your Lips 1 with multiple colour superimpositions. Originally shown with a soundtrack from computer artist Alan Sutcliffe but...

Digital Still Life was originally made for projection directly from an Atari computer. The same computer programme defines the image sequence, the...

This film is the beginning of an examination of the perceptual and conceptual structures which can be dealt with using pure colour sequences in loop...

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