Horror Film 1 (1971-2026)
Malcolm Le Grice (performed by Betija Zvejniece)
Originally trained as a painter, Malcolm Le Grice became one of the most important voices in the independent film world in England when he co-founded the London Film- Makers’ Co-Op in the late 1960s and used his positions as a teacher to introduce art students to filmmaking. As a filmmaker, he was one of the central figures of the ‘materialist’ film movement that formed in the United Kingdom. Horror Film 1 is a film performance with three overlapping coloured light projections, in which Le Grice transformed his own shadow into an image, a surface and interference patterns. Le Grice’s influential Expanded Cinema work is now presented as a ‘re-enactment’ performed by Betija Zvejniece. Although the action of the performance is improvised to adapt to each specific time and place, a consistent pattern is followed that has hardly changed since the first performance in 1971.
