Malcolm Le Grice
Le temps des images
Author(s) Malcolm Le Grice, Yann Beauvais, Philippe Langlois, Lucy Reynolds
Format paperback book
Year 2017
Language(s) French
Pages 344 pages
Description
With some twenty texts by Malcolm Le Grice, brought together for the first time, examining his filmmaking practice and cinema, and four essays on his work, Le temps des images sheds light on the connection between painting, cinema and music in the filmmaker's work, emphasizing the devices favored by the artist throughout his career: the loop, permutations and programming, as well as the video work he has developed using digital tools since the mid-1980s.
Having started out as a painter in London in the early 1960s, Malcolm Le Grice (born 1940 in Plymouth) turned to cinema a few years later. From the late 1960s onwards, his multi-projection work was accompanied by live performance elements that interacted with the projection itself. He produced his most accomplished and complex work in the 1970s, with now-classic works such as Threshold (1972), Berlin Horse (1970) and Horror Film 1 (1971). His films, installations and performances have been widely shown in museums, galleries and festivals around the world (Une Histoire du Cinéma, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Film as Film, Hayward Gallery, London; Documenta 6, Kassel; Shoot Shoot Shoot, Tate Modern, London, etc.). Beyond his work as a filmmaker, Malcolm Le Grice played a crucial role in the critical and institutional promotion of avant-garde cinema in Great Britain. He was a pioneer in the field of education, and was instrumental in establishing film departments in art schools. Finally, he is an inveterate polemicist: his book Abstract Film and Beyond provides both a historical and philosophical framework for British and European avant-garde cinema. Since 1997, Malcolm Le Grice has directed the media research program at Central St Martin's art college in London.
Edited by Yann Beauvais.
Texts by Malcolm Le Grice, Yann Beauvais, Philippe Langlois, Lucy Reynolds.
Published with l'Espace multimédia Gantner.
ISBN: 978-2-84066-545-8
EAN: 9782840665458