Malcolm Le Grice Movies

  • 1976
    Time & Motion Study

    Time & Motion Study

    Time & Motion Study

    01976HD

    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,...

    Time & Motion Study
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2004
    Digital Aberration

    Digital Aberration

    Digital Aberration

    02004HD

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

    Digital Aberration
  • 1973
    Gross Fog

    Gross Fog

    Gross Fog

    01973HD

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

    Gross Fog
  • 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
    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
  • 2013
    Jonas

    Jonas

    Jonas

    12013HD

    An impromptu portrait of Jonas Mekas shot at the Serpentine Gallery, London on the occasion of a celebration of his 90th birthday. All made in a...

    Jonas
  • 1973
    White Field Duration

    White Field Duration

    White Field Duration

    01973HD

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

    White Field Duration
  • 1969
    Spot the Microdot

    Spot the Microdot

    Spot the Microdot

    61969HD

    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...

    Spot the Microdot
  • 1971
    Love Story 2

    Love Story 2

    Love Story 2

    01971HD

    Double projection. No images, only colour, first changing slowly in spectrum order, yellow, or red, purple, blue, green, yellow.. and in other...

    Love Story 2
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
    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
  • 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
  • 1968
    Blind White Duration

    Blind White Duration

    Blind White Duration

    01968HD

    Blind White Duration is a film concerned with constructing an experience from limited perceptions. The viewer is introduced to a limited range of...

    Blind White Duration