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Malcolm Le Grice
Malcolm Le Grice (15 May 1940 – 3 December 2024) 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".
Le Grice was born in Plymouth, Devon, on 15 May 1940. He studied painting at the Arts University Plymouth. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. He founded the London Film-Makers' Co-op workshop in the late 1960s, 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 1960s, becoming a pioneer of computer-generated filmmaking. 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 2015 Media City Film Festival and REDCAT in 2019. He also showed in major art exhibitions including the Biennale de Paris 8, Arte Inglese Oggi, Milan, Une histoire du cinéma, Paris, Documenta 6, X-Screen at the Mumok, and Behind the Facts at the Fundació Joan Miró.
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 1980s 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 (1977, Studio Vista and MIT). For three years in the 1970s 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 2011. Le Grice was a Professor Emeritus of the University of the Arts London. 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.
Le Grice was married to Judith Le Grice and had two children. He died on 3 December 2024, at the age of 84.
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Malcolm Le Grice
Malcolm Le Grice (15 May 1940 – 3 December 2024) 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".
Le Grice was born in Plymouth, Devon, on 15 May 1940. He studied painting at the Arts University Plymouth. He studied at the Slade School of Fine Art. He founded the London Film-Makers' Co-op workshop in the late 1960s, 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 1960s, becoming a pioneer of computer-generated filmmaking. 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 2015 Media City Film Festival and REDCAT in 2019. He also showed in major art exhibitions including the Biennale de Paris 8, Arte Inglese Oggi, Milan, Une histoire du cinéma, Paris, Documenta 6, X-Screen at the Mumok, and Behind the Facts at the Fundació Joan Miró.
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 1980s 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 (1977, Studio Vista and MIT). For three years in the 1970s 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 2011. Le Grice was a Professor Emeritus of the University of the Arts London. 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.
Le Grice was married to Judith Le Grice and had two children. He died on 3 December 2024, at the age of 84.