Four cameras, one picnic, zero chill for your eyeballs.
Le déjeuner sur l’herbe is simultaneously perceived from four different camera positions in a work which engages with the pro-filmic in order to question documentation, illusion and the film viewing process.
Direction
Le Grice weaponizes boredom like a true structuralist menace.
Editing
Four simultaneous viewpoints that refuse to cooperate.
Director
Malcolm Le Grice
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Le Grice was central to London's Film Co-op, where artists treated cameras like hostile witnesses.
Manet's original 1863 painting was rejected by the Paris Salon for being indecent; Le Grice rejects your desire for narrative closure.
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