Malcolm Le Grice
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Malcolm Le Grice performance
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Since the 1960s Malcolm Le Grice (b. 1940) has been one of Britain's most innovative filmmakers and theorists, radically questioning and experimenting with the material, structural and experiential processes of cinema. Originally trained as a painter, he has consistently used multiple technologies and live performance to explore the experience of moving images within the art gallery as much as the cinema. This special two-day presentation of Le Grice's work in the Level 2 Gallery will focus on his dynamic use of colour and abstraction through a series of multiple screen installations and performances. The daytime programme consists of two repeating installations for three screens shown from 10.00 - 17.00 on both days. The evenings will feature live performances at the following times: Saturday 29 November, 20.45 Sunday 30 November, 18.00
Free
Biography
Malcolm Le Grice has shown regularly in Europe and the USA and his work has been screened in many international film festivals. He has also shown in major art exhibitions like the Une Histoire du Cinema, Paris, Documenta 6, Kassel, X-Screen at the Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, and Behind the Facts at the Fondacion Joan Miro, Barcelona.
His work has been screened at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Louvre, Paris and Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London. It is in permanent collections including: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; the Royal Belgian Film Archive, Brussels; the National Film Library of Australia, Canberra; German Cinamatheque Archive, Berlin; Canadian Distribution Centre, Montreal and Archives du Film Experimental D'Avignon. A number of longer films have been transmitted on British TV, including 'Finnegans Chin', 'Sketches for a Sensual Philosophy' and 'Chronos Fragmented'. His primary work since the mid 1980s has been in video and digital media and includes the multi-projection video installation works 'The Cyclops Cycle' and ‘Treatise’.
Le Grice has written critical and theoretical work including a history of experimental cinema 'Abstract Film and Beyond' (1977, Studio Vista and MIT). For three years in the 1970's he wrote a regular column for the art monthly Studio International and has published numerous other articles on film, video and digital media. Many of these have been collected and recently published under the title 'Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age' by the British Film Institute (2001).
Le Grice is a Professor Emeritus of the University of the Arts London where he is a collaborating director with David Curtis of the British Artists Film and Video Study Collection.
