Malcolm Le Grice (born May 1940, Plymouth, United Kingdom) is a
British artist known for his avant-garde film work.The British Film
Institute claims that he "is probably the most influential modernist
filmmaker in British cinema".Le Grice was born in 1940, and studied at
Slade School of Art, London. 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 Goldsmith's College,
London. He has balanced his continuing practice as a filmmaking artist
with campaigning for the artform in print, in higher education, and in
committees at the British Film Institute and the Arts Council.Le Grice
started as a painter but began to make film and computer works in the
mid 1960s. Since then he has shown regularly in Europe and the US and
his work has been screened in many international film festivals,
including recent retrospectives at Media City Film Festival (2015) and
RedCat in Los Angeles (2019). 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 Fundació
Joan Miró, Barcelona.
British artist known for his avant-garde film work.The British Film
Institute claims that he "is probably the most influential modernist
filmmaker in British cinema".Le Grice was born in 1940, and studied at
Slade School of Art, London. 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 Goldsmith's College,
London. He has balanced his continuing practice as a filmmaking artist
with campaigning for the artform in print, in higher education, and in
committees at the British Film Institute and the Arts Council.Le Grice
started as a painter but began to make film and computer works in the
mid 1960s. Since then he has shown regularly in Europe and the US and
his work has been screened in many international film festivals,
including recent retrospectives at Media City Film Festival (2015) and
RedCat in Los Angeles (2019). 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 Fundació
Joan Miró, Barcelona.
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