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MALCOLM LE GRICE

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02 Nov 2010 6 pm Free & Open
Experimental
COFA UNSW to the Public
Cinema in the
Cnr Oxford St & Greens Rd
Paddington Digital Age
Lecture Theatre: EGO2

Malcolm Le Grice, Professor Emeritus of the
University of the Arts London and co-director of
the British Artists Film and Video Study Collection
will introduce a program of his film and video
made between 1966 to 2009 in this NIEA lecture.
A renowned film and video artist, Professor
Le Grice’s work has been screened in many
international film festivals and exhibited 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 Fondacion Joan Miro, Barcelona.
His work has been screened at the Museum
of Modern Art, New York, the Louvre Museum
in Paris and the Tate Modern and Tate Britain
in London and is in permanent collections
including: the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris;
the Royal Belgian Film Archive, Brussels; the
National Film Library of Australia, Canberra;
German Cinamatheque Archive, Berlin; Canadian
Distribution Centre, Montreal and Archives
du Film Experimental D’Avignon. A number of
longer films have been transmitted on British
TV, including ‘Finnegans Chin’, ‘Sketches for a
Sensual Philosophy’ and ‘Chronos Fragmented’.
His main work since the mid 1980’s is in video
and digital media and includes the multi-projection
video installation works ‘The Cyclops Cycle’ and
‘Treatise’.
Professor Le Grice has also written extensively on
film and video, including the influential ‘Abstract
Film and Beyond’ 1981 and ‘Experimental Cinema
in the Digital Age’ 2001.He is a founding member
of the London Filmmakers Co-operative.
For information about upcoming NIEA lectures
and events, visit www.niea.unsw.edu.au

IMAGE Still from Performance of Horror Film 1 (1971), Photograph Courtesy of the Artist.

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