Malcolm Le Grice

Malcolm Le Grice

Born in May 1940, Malcolm Le Grice started as a painter but began to make film and computer works in the mid 1960's. Since then he 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 Paris Biennale No.8, Arte Inglese Oggi, Milan, 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 Museum in Paris and the Tate Modern and Tate Britain in London and is in permanent collections including: the 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 main work since the mid 1980's is 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.

  • Title: Malcolm Le Grice
  • Popularity: 0.606
  • Known For: Directing
  • Birthday: 1940-05-15
  • Place of Birth: Plymouth, England, United Kingdom
  • Homepage: https://www.malcolmlegrice.com/
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Malcolm Le Grice Movies

  • 1985
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    Home Movies 1971-81

    Home Movies 1971-81

    1 1985 HD

    Home movies shot on Super 8mm by W+B Hein over 10 years.

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  • 2004
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    Art & the 60s

    Art & the 60s

    1 2004 HD

    Documentary about British Art in the 60's produced by the BBC starting with Fraser and Kasmin, moving to the modern sculpture movement lead by Caro...

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  • 1971
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    Horror Film 1

    Horror Film 1

    4 1971 HD

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

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  • 1997
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    Birth of a Nation

    Birth of a Nation

    6.3 1997 HD

    Filmmaker Jonas Mekas films 160 underground film people over four decades.

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  • 1979
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    Emily - Third Party Speculation

    Emily - Third Party Speculation

    1 1979 HD

    Emily - Third Party Speculation is the second of a ‘domestic trilogy’ exploring the relationship between the restricted camera viewpoint...

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  • 1993
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    Abstract Cinema

    Abstract Cinema

    8 1993 HD

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

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  • 2016
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    Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo

    Eighteen fragments from Malcolm Le Grice’s After Leonardo

    10 2016 HD

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

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  • 1975
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    After Manet, After Giorgione – Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe or Fete Champetre

    After Manet, After Giorgione – Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe or Fete Champetre

    1 1975 HD

    Le déjeuner sur l’herbe is simultaneously perceived from four different camera positions in a work which engages with the pro-filmic in...

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  • 1994
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    Balcony Water Colour

    Balcony Water Colour

    1 1994 HD

    Colour - Water –Rain – not a water colour – bougainvillea in extreme close-up – touching the lens – swimming pool below...

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  • 1970
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    Berlin Horse

    Berlin Horse

    7 1970 HD

    Two fragments of 8mm home-movie footage shot by the artist near Berlin weave together in repeating cycles of action, temporal manipulation, and...

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  • 1972
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    Threshold

    Threshold

    6.5 1972 HD

    Le Grice no longer simply uses the printer as a reflexive mechanism, but utilises the possibilities of colour-shift and permutation of imagery as the...

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  • 1974
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    After Lumière – l'Arroseur arrosé

    After Lumière – l'Arroseur arrosé

    1 1974 HD

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

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  • 1967
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    Little Dog for Roger

    Little Dog for Roger

    8 1967 HD

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

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  • 1972
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    Whitchurch Down (Duration)

    Whitchurch Down (Duration)

    1 1972 HD

    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...

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  • 1977
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    Blackbird Descending - Tense Alignment

    Blackbird Descending - Tense Alignment

    1 1977 HD

    A brilliantly constructed, melancholic ode to the passing of time by Malcolm Le Grice.

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  • 1983
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    Finnegan's Chin

    Finnegan's Chin

    8 1983 HD

    Directed by Malcolm le Grice.

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  • 1979
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    Emily - Third Party Speculation

    Emily - Third Party Speculation

    1 1979 HD

    Emily - Third Party Speculation is the second of a ‘domestic trilogy’ exploring the relationship between the restricted camera viewpoint...

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  • 1969
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    Reign of the Vampire

    Reign of the Vampire

    1 1969 HD

    Directed by Malcolm Le Grice. "It nears the end of the political paranoid works using found military documentary images. It explores a complex form...

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  • 1966
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    Castle One (The Light Bulb Film)

    Castle One (The Light Bulb Film)

    1 1966 HD

    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...

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  • 1970
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    Berlin Horse

    Berlin Horse

    7 1970 HD

    Two fragments of 8mm home-movie footage shot by the artist near Berlin weave together in repeating cycles of action, temporal manipulation, and...

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  • 1970
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    Berlin Horse

    Berlin Horse

    7 1970 HD

    Two fragments of 8mm home-movie footage shot by the artist near Berlin weave together in repeating cycles of action, temporal manipulation, and...

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  • 1970
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    Berlin Horse

    Berlin Horse

    7 1970 HD

    Two fragments of 8mm home-movie footage shot by the artist near Berlin weave together in repeating cycles of action, temporal manipulation, and...

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  • 1972
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    Threshold

    Threshold

    6.5 1972 HD

    Le Grice no longer simply uses the printer as a reflexive mechanism, but utilises the possibilities of colour-shift and permutation of imagery as the...

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  • 1972
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    Threshold

    Threshold

    6.5 1972 HD

    Le Grice no longer simply uses the printer as a reflexive mechanism, but utilises the possibilities of colour-shift and permutation of imagery as the...

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  • 1972
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    Threshold

    Threshold

    6.5 1972 HD

    Le Grice no longer simply uses the printer as a reflexive mechanism, but utilises the possibilities of colour-shift and permutation of imagery as the...

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  • 1967
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    Yes No Maybe Maybe Not

    Yes No Maybe Maybe Not

    1 1967 HD

    A double projection of images of lapping water and the Battersea Power Station all transformed by negative positive superimposition creating a moving...

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  • 1965
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    China Tea

    China Tea

    1 1965 HD

    Shot with two 8mm cameras then projected side by side accompanied by an audio tape of "prepared piano".

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  • 1973
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    White Field Duration

    White Field Duration

    1 1973 HD

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

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  • 1969
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    Spot the Microdot

    Spot the Microdot

    6 1969 HD

    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...

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  • 1973
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    Matrix

    Matrix

    5.9 1973 HD

    Abstract art film made for gallery exhibition.

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  • 1967
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    Talla

    Talla

    1 1967 HD

    Rocky, granite outcrops, a derelict quarry-worker and Dartmoor prison.

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  • 2015
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    Marking Time

    Marking Time

    7 2015 HD

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

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  • 2015
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    Where When

    Where When

    1 2015 HD

    Malcolm Le Grice - 3D.

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  • 1998
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    Joseph's New Coat

    Joseph's New Coat

    1 1998 HD

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

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  • 1968
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    Castle Two

    Castle Two

    1 1968 HD

    Found film sequences brought together in the paranoia of the cold war and Vietnam.

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  • 1972
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    Horror Film 2

    Horror Film 2

    7 1972 HD

    Film performance, using a back projection screen as well as several projection sources, including a red and green source close together (requires 3D...

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  • 1972
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    Blue Field Duration

    Blue Field Duration

    1 1972 HD

    "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...

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  • 1971
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    Horror Film 1

    Horror Film 1

    4 1971 HD

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

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  • 1973
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    Gross Fog

    Gross Fog

    1 1973 HD

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

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  • 2020
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    Dark Trees

    Dark Trees

    1 2020 HD

    Dark Trees starts with a view from a window in silhouette through which one sees a garden, tall trees, rooftops and the sea. This scene orientates...

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  • 1968
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    Blind White Duration

    Blind White Duration

    1 1968 HD

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

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  • 1995
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    Chronos Fragmented

    Chronos Fragmented

    1 1995 HD

    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...

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  • 1993
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    Weir

    Weir

    1 1993 HD

    An encounter with a small man-made waterfall presented in a triptych format.

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  • 2006
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    DENISINED - SINEDENIS

    DENISINED - SINEDENIS

    1 2006 HD

    Music J S Bach digitally reconstructed by Le Grice.

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  • 2006
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    Again Finnegan

    Again Finnegan

    1 2006 HD

    Originally shot as part of Finnegan’s Chin, this sequence is re-edited as a portrait of performer Jack Murray. It continues the fascination of...

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  • 1995
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    For the Benefit of Mr. K

    For the Benefit of Mr. K

    1 1995 HD

    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...

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  • 2008
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    After Monet Water Lilies

    After Monet Water Lilies

    1 2008 HD

    "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...

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  • 2005
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    Lecture to an Academy

    Lecture to an Academy

    1 2005 HD

    When I reviewed the video material it reminded me of a theatre performance which I recalled as “A Lecture to an Academy”, given by Tutte...

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  • 2004
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    Critical Moments

    Critical Moments

    1 2004 HD

    ‘Critical Moment One’ was an un-planned recording of a one-year old boy exploring shells and sand on a beach. Though the boy was my own...

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  • 2003
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    Travelling with Mark

    Travelling with Mark

    1 2003 HD

    A digital manipulation exploiting the transcoding ‘mosaic’ of video shot on a train journey from Berlin to southern Germany with Mark...

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  • 2001
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    Neither Here Nor There

    Neither Here Nor There

    1 2001 HD

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

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  • 1984
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    Digital Still Life

    Digital Still Life

    1 1984 HD

    A single performance made at the National Film Theatre against a blank screen – the performer twice leaves the stage on one side, exits the...

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  • 2008
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    Self Portrait After Raban Take Measure

    Self Portrait After Raban Take Measure

    1 2008 HD

    Self Portrait looks for an approach to a specific relationship between the duration of a work and material conditions in the projection as did...

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  • 2006
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    H2O-0C-24.02.06-12.01GMT - 03,50.40W - 50.16.30N

    H2O-0C-24.02.06-12.01GMT - 03,50.40W - 50.16.30N

    1 2006 HD

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

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  • 2011
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    Finiti

    Finiti

    1 2011 HD

    [Originally] six virtual screens matted into three Blu-ray projections. First exhibited at the Centre Multimedia Gantner in 2011, then on an...

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  • 2010
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    Absinthe

    Absinthe

    1 2010 HD

    In October 2009 I did a show in Prague. I returned to the Kafka house of my ‘Benefit of Mr K’ but found the whole street and Castle area...

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  • 2013
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    Jonas

    Jonas

    1 2013 HD

    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...

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  • 1971
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    Your Lips 3

    Your Lips 3

    1 1971 HD

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

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  • 1968
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    Wharf

    Wharf

    1 1968 HD

    Originally the work was presented as a pre-ordered sequence of 35mm slides showing two unknown people walking around the wall of a sea-side swimming...

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  • 1998
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    Even a Cyclops Pays the Ferryman

    Even a Cyclops Pays the Ferryman

    1 1998 HD

    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...

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  • 2004
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    Digital Aberration

    Digital Aberration

    1 2004 HD

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

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  • 1987
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    Arbitrary Logic

    Arbitrary Logic

    1 1987 HD

    Arbitrary Logic, an interactive audio-visual synthesiser was first presented under the working title Osnabruk at the Osnabruk festival of 1987 and...

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  • 2011
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    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    60 Seconds of Solitude in Year Zero

    3.8 2011 HD

    An anthology of one-minute films created by 60 international filmmakers on the theme of the death of cinema. Intended as an ode to 35mm, the film was...

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  • 1973
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    Pre-Production

    Pre-Production

    1 1973 HD

    Illuminated by two blank screens projected from empty slides, four performers read texts drawn from the history of cinema – a dictionary of...

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  • 1973
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    Four Wall Duration

    Four Wall Duration

    1 1973 HD

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

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  • 1975
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    After Manet, After Giorgione – Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe or Fete Champetre

    After Manet, After Giorgione – Le Dejeuner sur l'Herbe or Fete Champetre

    1 1975 HD

    Le déjeuner sur l’herbe is simultaneously perceived from four different camera positions in a work which engages with the pro-filmic in...

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