Malcolm Le Grice: New BFI Restorations

Date: 1 November 2016 | Season: Shoot Shoot Shoot 2016 | Tags:

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MALCOLM LE GRICE: NEW BFI RESTORATIONS
Tuesday 1 November 2016, at 7:30pm
New York Anthology Film Archives

Malcolm Le Grice instigated the LFMC’s move towards production, building up the workshop and sketching the blueprint for the organization’s structure and constitution in 1968. By that time, he had already constructed the rudimentary printer and developer with which he made his early work. An artist with a passion for technological developments, he was an early adoptee of computer animation, new media and multi-channel work, and is now working in digital 3D. His first 16mm film Castle 1 is a Cageian found-footage assemblage that requires a flashing photoflood lightbulb to be hung in front of the screen. Little Dog for Roger, along with Landow’s Film in Which … and W+B Hein’s Rohfilm, embodies the materialist aspects of structural film. Berlin Horse (music by Brian Eno) and Threshold exhibit Le Grice’s skills as a colorist and After Lumière refashions early cinema to examine the construction of meaning. These five new restorations from the BFI are being shown together for the first time on film.

Malcolm Le Grice, Castle 1, 1966, 35mm, b/w, sound, 22 min
Malcolm Le Grice, Little Dog for Roger, 1967, 35mm, b/w, sound, 12 min
Malcolm Le Grice, Berlin Horse, 1970, 35mm, color, sound, 9 min
Malcolm Le Grice, Threshold, 1972, 16mm, color, sound, 13 min
Malcolm Le Grice, After Lumière – L’arroseur arrosé, 1974, 35mm, b/w, sound, 12 min