Malcolm le grice biography channel

British artist (–)

Malcolm Le Grice (15 May – 3 December ) was a British artist known for his avant-garde film work.

The British Film Institute claimed that he was "probably the most influential modernist filmmaker in British cinema".^[1]

Biography

Le Grice was born in Plymouth, Devon, on 15 May ^[2][3] He studied painting at the Arts University Plymouth.^[4] He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art.

He founded the London Film-Makers' Co-op workshop in the late s, at the same time introducing film to fine art students at Saint Martin's School of Art and the Goldsmiths, University of London. He balanced his practice as a filmmaking artist with campaigning for the art form in print, in higher education, and in committees at the British Film Institute and the Arts Council.

Le Grice started his career as a painter but began to make film and computer works in the mid s,^[5] becoming a pioneer of computer-generated filmmaking.^[6] From that point he showed regularly in Europe and the U.S. and his work was screened in many international film festivals, including retrospectives at the Media City Film Festival and REDCAT in He also showed in major art exhibitions including the Biennale de Paris 8, Arte Inglese Oggi, Milan, Une histoire du cinéma&#;[fr], Paris, Documenta 6,^[7] X-Screen at the Mumok,^[8] and Behind the Facts at the Fundació Joan Miró.^[9]

His work was screened at the Museum of Modern Art, the Louvre and the Tate Modern and Tate Britain and is in permanent collections including: the Centre Pompidou, the Cinematek, the National Film and Sound Archive, Deutsche Kinemathek, Canadian Distribution Centre, Montreal and Archives du Film Experimental D'Avignon.

A number of his longer films were transmitted on British television, including Finnegans Chin, Sketches for a Sensual Philosophy and Chronos Fragmented.

His main works from the mid s were in video and digital media and includes the multi-projection video installation works The Cyclops Cycle and Treatise.

Le Grice wrote critical and theoretical works including a history of experimental cinema, titled Abstract Film and Beyond (, Studio Vista and MIT).

For three years in the s he wrote a regular column for the art monthly Studio International and published numerous other articles on film, video and digital media. Many of these were collected and published under the title Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age by the British Film Institute in Le Grice was a Professor Emeritus of the University of the Arts London.^[10] He established the Film Department at Saint Martin's School of Art.

Le Grice was also a former Dean of Media Art at the University of Westminster. He served on the committees of the British Film Institute, the Arts Council, the CNAA, the Higher Education Funding Council for England and the Arts and Humanities Research Council.^[4]

Le Grice was married to Judith Le Grice and had two children.^[11][12][13] He died on 3 December , at the age of ^[14][15]

Selected works

Paintings

• Untitled ()
• Painting ()
• Castle Assemblage 1 ()
• Castle Assemblage 2 ()
• After Manet 1 ()
• Walking By ()
• Leonardo Tryptich ()
• Berlin Horse Block ()
• Before you came After I've gone ()
• Orchard Comp 5b
• Topology Exploration 3

Films, videos and photographs

• China Tea (Silent, )
• Castle 1 ()
• Little Dog for Roger ()
• Yes No Maybe Maybenot ()
• Talla (Silent, )
• Blind White Duration (Silent, )
• Castle Two ()
• Grass (Slide-tape, )
• Wharf (Slide-tape film, )
• Spot the Microdot ()
• Lucky Pigs ()
• Reign of the Vampire ()
• Berlin Horse ()
• Love Story 1 (Shadow play film, )
• Love Story 2 ()
• Horror Film 1 (Shadow play film, )
• Your Lips 3 ()
• ()
• Newport (Silent, )
• Whitchurch Down ()
• Threshold ()
• Love Story 3 (Performance film, )
• Horror Film 2 (Shadow play, )
• Blue Field Duration ()
• After Leonardo (Play, )
• Don't Say (Silent, )
• Pre-Production (Slide-tape, )
• Matrix (Loop film, )
• Four Wall Duration (Loop film, )
• Gross Fog (Loop film, )
• Joseph's Coat (Loop film, )
• Principles of Cinematography (Performance film, )
• Screen Entrance Exit (Performance film, )
• After Lumiere - l'arroseur arrosé ()
• After Manet - le dejeuner sur l'herb ()
• Academic Still Life ()
• Time and Motion Study ()
• Blackbird Descending - tense alignment ()
• Emily - third party speculation ()
• Finnegans Chin - temporal economy ()
• Digital Still Life (Video, –)
• Arbitrary Logic (Video, –)
• Heads I Win - Tails You Lose (Video, )
• Like a Fox (Co-edited with Gill Etherley, Video, )
• Rock Wave (Video, )
• Juniper and the myths of origin ()
• Veritas (Video, )
• Beware (Video, )
• Et in Arcadia Ego ()
• Rape ()
• Weir ()
• Prelude ()
• Race ()
• Warsaw Window ()
• Cidre Boucher ()
• Balcony Water Colour ()
• Seeing the Future ()
• Out of the Crypt ()
• For the Benefit of Mr K ()
• Chronos Fragmented ()
• Joseph's Newer Coat ()
• Joseph's Newer Coat 6 (Video, )
• Even the Cyclops Pays the Ferryman (Video, )
• Still Life and Lunch in Little Italy (Video, )
• Jazzy Jazzy Jazzy (Video, )
• Neither Here Nor There (Video, )
• Unforgettable - that's what you are (Loop video and art installation, ; Reworked in )
• Travelling with Mark (Video, )
• Cherry (Video, )
• Digital Aberration ()
• Critical Moment 1 ()
• Autumn Horizon number 3 ()
• Lecture to an Academy ()
• Of Keys and Beauty ()
• Anthony Dundee ()
• Waiting for Ian ()
• H2O-0CGMT - 03,W - N ()
• DENISINED - SINEDENIS ()
• Again Finnegan ()
• Taint ()
• Self Portrait after Raban Take Measure ()
• Water Lilies after Monet ()
• Absinthe ()
• FINITI ()
• Jonas ()
• Yann ()
• Where When (Video, )
• Marking Time (Video, )
• The Probability of God is About Zero (Video, )

Selected exhibitions

• Behind the Facts: Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain.

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• Behind the Facts: Serralves, Porto, Portugal. May
• Avanto Helsinki Media Art Festival, Finland. November
• Behind the Facts: Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany. January-April
• Fundación Banco Santander&#;[es; fr]: Sobre la historia (On History). Madrid, Spain. March-June
• International Film Festival Rotterdam, the Netherlands.
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• Behind the Facts: Bogotá Museum of Modern Art, Colombia. March-June
• Tate Modern, London, England. November
• Retrospective: Espace Multimédia Gantner, Bourogne, France. November January
• Tate Modern, London, England. October
• Man with a Projector: Performa 13, New York City, U.S.

  November

• Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, England. 28 May July
• Crossing the Threshold: BFI Southbank, London, England.
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• Microscope Gallery, New York City, U.S. October
• Anthology Film Archives, New York City, U.S. November
• Present Moments and Passing Time: Plymouth. January-March
• This Way Out of England: Gallery House in Retrospect; Filmaktion, Expanded Cinema and Film Performance. Curated by Mark Webber.

  March

• DNA: AND - Malcolm Le Grice, Selected Works Velarde Gallery, Devon, England.

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