Whitechurch Down (1972) by Malcolm LeGrice
Thursday, October 4, 1984, 8:00 pm
The Other Side: European Avant-Garde Cinema 1960-1980
Program 1: Great Britain
The Other Side surveys and celebrates 20 years of Europe’s longest and most fertile period of avant-garde filmmaking, from 1960-1980. In collaboration with the Pacific Film Archive, this 10-part series features many films never before seen in the U.S. Five of the programs will be shown at P.F.A. and the remaining five at the Cinematheque. —This series was guest-curated by critic Regina Cornwall.
Margaret Tait: Place of Work (1976), a close study of a house and garden …with something of the world beyond.
Malcolm LeGrice: Whitechurch Down (1972) and After Lumiere – L’Arroseur Arrose (1974). Whitechurch Down considers the materiality of film combined with an interest in landscape. In After Lumiere LeGrice reworks the narrative parameters of primitive cinema while adding an intriguing “sound” flourish.
Chris Welsby: Streamline (1976), uses the camera as a “potential interface between ‘mind’ and ‘nature’ through a continuous real-time tracking shot.”
Renny Croft: Attermire (1976) probes the spatial and temporal qualities experienced within a specific area of landscape.