Malcolm Le Grice studied painting at the Slade School of Fine Art, London, and began to make film, video and computer works in the mid-60s. Together with David Curtis, he founded the London Film Makers Cooperative in 1968. Out of the Co-Op emerged Filmaktion: a group of radical performance artists and filmmakers, of which Le Grice was part.

He has exhibited extensively in museums and film festivals including: Paris Biennale No.8, Paris, 1973; Une Histoire du Cinema, Paris, 1976; Documenta 6, Kassel, 1977; X-Screen at the MUMOK, Vienna, 2004; Behind the Facts. Interfunktionen 1968-1975, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, 2004; Performa13, New York, 2013. Screenings have been held at Museum of Modern Art, New York; Louvre, Paris; Tate Modern and Tate Britain, London.

Erika Balsom is a senior lecturer in Film Studies at King’s College London. Her book After Uniqueness: A History of Film and Video Art in Circulation, was published by Columbia University Press in 2017. She is the author of Exhibiting Cinema in Contemporary Art (2013), the co-editor of Documentary Across Disciplines (2016), and a frequent contributor to magazines such as Artforum, frieze, and Sight & Sound. Her scholarly work has appeared in journals including Cinema Journal, Screen, and Grey Room. In 2017, she was the international curator in residence at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery/Len Lye Centre, New Zealand, resulting in the 2018 screening programme and publication An Oceanic Feeling: Cinema and the Sea. In 2018, she was awarded a Leverhulme Prize and the Katherine Singer Kovacs essay award from the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

Last update 7th February 2019