Malcolm le Grice

A nostalgic exploration, comprising fragments of reworked 9.5mm home movie footage. The deterioration of the original film, like memories, contributes to the film's meaning. (themoviedb.org)

People try to keep a horse under control.

Conceived as a film to be projected on three screens, (em-arts.org)

Multiple varations on the theme of Lumière brothers' "L'arroseur arrosé".

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 forms with pictorial material. (mubi.com)

This film was made by punching circular holes into fully opaque film stock and laying discs of color film into some of the punched holes. (imdb)

Blind White Duration is a film concerned with constructing an experience from limited perceptions. The viewer is introduced to a limited range of images (a snowy day in Harrow, walking to the Metropolitan Line station) shown in brief fade-ins and outs or quick flashes. For most of the film, the screen remains white. This is a film about the light of the projector, the white screen and the white image which emerges out of it. (Letterboxd)

Superimposed images both negative and positive of waves beating against rocks and chimneys of Battersea power station play on a split screen and cause uncertainty as to what is being shown, stimulating active participation by the viewer. (imdb)

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 larger screen. The performing body casts complex colour shadow. The action begins touching the screen and - passing through the space of the audience – it ends at the projectors. The actions are timed to an audio tape of breathing.

A film made with found newsreel footage combined with sequences of a flashing light bulb. It is projected with a real flashing bulb hanging in front of the screen as a film performance.

A re-worked version of Your Lips 1 with multiple colour superimpositions. Originally shown with a soundtrack from computer artist Alan Sutcliffe but replaced by a re-mixed track of one of the prepared piano pieces made by Le Grice in 1964/5.

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

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

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

Arbitrary Logic, an interactive audio-visual synthesiser was first presented under the working title Osnabruk at the Osnabruk festival of 1987 and later as part of an improvised and computer music performance with Keith Rowe at the London Filmmakers Cooperative, December 1989.

A single performance made at the National Film Theatre against a blank screen – the performer twice leaves the stage on one side, exits the building and re-enters the stage on the other side – the duration was determined by the time it took to walk out of sight around the theatre.

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.