malcolm.legrice[at]btinternet.com
Born in May 1940, I started as a painter but began to make film and computer works in the mid 1960's. I have since shown work regularly in Europe and the USA frequently exploring multi-projection formats both in film and more recently in video. A number of large-scale works have been transmitted on TV including 'Finnegans Chin', 'Sketches for a Sensual Philosophy' and 'Chronos Fragmented'. I have 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 I wrote a column for the art monthly Studio International and published numerous other articles on film, video and digital media. Many of these have been collected and published under the title 'Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age' by the BFI (2001). My most recent work is in video and digital media which includes the multi-projection video work 'The Cyclops Cycle'. My Film and video work is distributed by the LUX in the UK, Light Cone in France and the Filmmakers Co-op in New York and is in various collections including the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris. I have also worked as an academic and held professorships at the University of Westminster and, currently, at the University of the Arts London. I have served on various national committees in the arts including the Arts Council of Great Britain and in academic committees including a research assessment panel of the Higher Education Funding Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Board.
Film/Videography
China Tea, 1965, (8mm), 10 minutes, colour, silent
Castle 1, 1966, 22 minutes, bw
Little Dog For Roger, 1967, 12 minutes, bw
Yes No Maybe Maybenot, 1967, 7 minutes, bw
Talla, 1967, 20 minutes, bw, silent
Blind White Duration, 1967, 10 minutes, bw, silent
Castle Two, 1968, 32 minutes, bw, two-screen
Spot the Microdot, 1969, 10 minutes
Your Lips 1, 1970, 3 minutes, silent (computer generated)
Lucky Pigs, 1970, 4 minutes, bw, three screen
Reign of the Vampire, 1970, 16 minutes, bw (one and two screen versions)
Berlin Horse, 1970, 9 minutes (one and two screen versions)
Love Story 2, 1971, 10 minutes, (two screen)
"1919", 1971, 12 minutes, three screen
Your 
Lips
3, 1971, 3 minutes (computer generated)
Newport, 1972, 15 minutes, bw, silent
Whitchurch Down, 1972, 10 minutes, (one and three screen versions)
Threshold, 1972, 17 minutes, (one and four screen versions)
Blue Field Duration, 1972, 8 minutes, two screen
White Field Duration, 1993, 12 minutes, two screen
After Leonardo, 1973, 22 minutes, six screen and performance
Don't Say, 1973, 10 minutes, two screen
After Lumiere - l'arroseur arrosé, 1974, 12 minutes
After Manet - le dejeuner sur l'herb, 1975, 60 minutes, four screen
Academic Still Life, 1976, 6 minutes
Time and Motion Study, 1976, 12 
minutes
Blackbird Descending - tense alignment, 1977, 120 minutes
Emily - third party speculation, 1979, 60 minutes
Finnegans Chin - temporal economy, 1981, 80 minutes (TV Transmission)
Sketches for a Sensual Philosophy, 1988, 60 minutes video - (TV Transmission) includes:
Digital Still Life, 8 mins - Computer and Video 1984-6
Like a Fox, (with Gill Eatherly) 6 mins Video 1988
Rock Wave, 8 mins, Video, - Music by Stewart Louis de Canonville 1988
Arbitrary Logic 9 mins - Computer and Video 1984-86
Juniper and the myths of origin - Music by AMM - 1988
Veritas, 6 mins Video 1988
Heads I Win - Tails You Lose, 7 mins - Computer and Video 1986
Beware, 5 mins Video 1988
Et in Arcadia Ego, 8 mins - Music by AMM - 1988
Trials and Tribulations Includes:
Rape, 3 Mins 1990 (video)
Weir, 1 min 15 sec 1993 (video)
Prelude, 1 min 30 sec 1993 (video)
Race, 2 mins 20 sec 1993 (video)
Warsaw Window, 2 mins 1994 (video)
Cidre Bouche, 1 min 20 sec 1994 (video)
Balcony Water Colour, 3 mins 1994 (video)
Seeing the Future, 1 min 1994 (video)
Out of the Crypt, 12 mins 1995 (video)
For the Benefit of Mr K, 1 min 1995 (video)
Joseph's New Coat 16 min 1995 (video)
Chronos Fragmented 55 mins 1995 (video - TV Transmission)
The Cyclops Cycle (one hour three screen video) includes:
Joseph's Newer Coat 16 mins 1998 (3 screen)
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ven
the Cyclops Pays the Ferryman 17mins1998 (3 screen)
Still Life and Letter from Toronto 6mins 2000 (3 screen)
Jazzy - Jazzy - Jazzy 4 mins 2001 (3 screen)
Neither Here nor There 6 mins 2001 (3 screen)
Traveling with Mark 6 mins 2003 (3 screen)
Cherry 2 mins 2003 (3 screen)
Digital Aberration 3 mins 2004 (video)
Unforgettable - that's what you are, gallery installation - 2002
Treatise - four screen gallery installation - 2004
Performances and other Media
Grass, 1968, tape-slide, appx. 10 minutes
Wharf, 1968, film-tape-slide, appx. 30 minutes
Drama in a Wide Media Environment - performance and multi-media event, Drury Lane Arts Lab 1968
Typodrama - computer generated text for performers - 'EVENT ONE' Royal College of Art 1970
Love Story 1, 1971, film-shadow performance, appx. 8 minutes
Horror Film 1, 1971, film-shadow performance, appx. 14 minutes
Love story 3, 1972, film-performance, 10 minutes
Horror Film 2, 1972, 3D shadow-performance (red and green spectacles), appx. 25 minutes
Pre-production, 1973, slide-performance, appx. 15 minutes
Matrix, 1973, six projector-performance, appx. 18 minutes
Four Wall Duration, 1973, film-loop installation, continuous
Gross Fog, 1973, film-loop installation, continuous
Joseph's Coat, 1973, film-loop installation (or performance)
Principles of Cinematography, 1973, film-performance 15 minutes
Screen Entrance Exit, 1974, film-performance, appx. 10 minutes
Videobscura - cctv and polaroid performance - Exeter 1974
After Leonardo - cctv video installation - Exeter 1974
Improvised and Computer Music event with Keith Rowe, London Film-makers Cooperative 1989
"Abstract Film and Beyond", Studio Vista and MIT 1977; Second edition MIT 1981; Greek translation pub. Ekdozeiz Kaztanioth. 1982
"Experimental Cinema in the Digital Age", BFI Publications 2001
"The Implication of Digital Systems for Cinema Theory" in 'Interfaces - Image - Texte - Language' pub. Pole de recherche international sur les medias (PRISM) 1990
"Kismet Protagony and the Zap Splat Syndrome" CAD Forum No 4, Zagreb, Croatia Conference papers pub.1993 and Millennium Film Journal (New York) 1995
"The Chronos Project" published in Media Scape 3 Zagreb June 1995, and Vertigo no5 1996
"Colour Abstraction - Painting - Film - Video - Digital Media", published in 'La poesie de la couleur" . Louvre Publication 1995
"Mapping in Multi Space - Vom Expanded Cinema zur Virtualitat", in White Cube/Black Box, E.A. Generali, Wien 1996
"Algunos conceptos teoricos para un cine interactive" published in "Arte en la era electronica" , ACC L'Angelot and Goethe Institute, Barcelona, 1997
"Ein Non-Linear Tradition - Experimentalfilm und Digitales Kino", in "Katalog 43. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen" 1997
"Takahiko Iimura - Getting the Measure of Time", published in " Takahiko Iimura" catalogue Lux Centre, London, September 1998
"Kunst im Reich der Hydra-Medien", p ublished in "Film & Computer - digital media visions" Deutsches Filmmusaeum, Frakfurt, 1998,
"Digital Cinema and Experimental Film - continuities and discontinuities", published in "Bild - Medium - Kunst", pp 207-218, ed. Yvonne Spielman and Gundolf Winter, Wilhelm Fink Verlag, October 1999
"Experimental Film and Digital Media", in 'Digital Aesthetics', Point issue 11, Spring/Summer 2001, pp 14-23,
"Improvising time and image", in Filmwaves Issue 14 1-2001 pp 14-19
"Snow Perspective and Time", in 'Almost Cover to Cover', Arnolfini, Bristol 2001, pp110-119
"The State of the Art - Research in the Practical Arts-Doctorates-Autonomous Methodologies" (with Stuart Evans) in Criticism, legitimacy, transgression, ELIA Journal Vol III Issue 2 and 3. Pub Intellect, Bristol, UK
"Virtual Reality Tautological Oxymoron" in 'New Screen Media' - ed. Rieser, Zapp. BFI Publications, London, 2002, pp 227-236
"Maintenant et alors -Reflexions et presence" - in Pratiques 14, Automne 2003 - Presses Universitaires de Rennes pp 67-90
"Three Strands of Experimental Cinema: Abstraction, Symbolism and Existentialism" in 'Gunvor Nelson and the Avant-Garde' ed John Sundholm pub. Peter Lang Gmbh, Frankfurt am Maine 2003 pp 15-30
"Interview - Maxa Zoller with Malcolm Le Grice" in X-SCREEN Catalogue, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, pub. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig, Koln 2003
My main academic interest in the past ten years
has been with the relationship of art practice to research. I have followed
this through my role as a professor and Head of School at the University of
Westminster between 1984 and 1997 and as Head of Research at Central Saint Martins
College of Art and Design of the London Institute between 1997 and the present.
I was a member of the research assessment panel for the UK government funding
body for universities (the HEFCE) from 1992 to 1996 and a member of a postgraduate
panel for the Arts and Humanities Research Board (AHRB) since 1998. I was also
a member of the working party set up by the UK Council for Graduate Education
(UKCGE) to report on research methodologies in the Creative and Performing Arts
and Design (published 2001). I am currently Associate Director of the AHRB Centre
for British Film and Television Studies working in collaboration with Professor
Laura Mulvey of Birkbeck College and directly with Research Fellow, David Curtis
on the history of British experimental film and video. I supervise a number
of research students undertaking doctorates and have been a frequent examiner
of PhDs in the practical arts.
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