Size M (1970)
Synopsis: A collage of imagery from the world of pop art, including references to classical painting, horror comics and films, pop art itself, underground films, pornography, and surrealism, among others. A strange decadent gang spend time out in the wood. A man with a gun and a masked man on all fours appear to chase the leather-jacketed ‘Size M’ through trees and water. Size M continues to change his appearance and finally reveals himself to be a woman. …
A 16 mm silent film shot in three sequences. First exhibited at Winchester School of Art in 1976, then at the New Contemporaries– Live Show, Acme Gallery in London (1976). The film was sent to the International Festival of Women Artists, Film Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, 1980. It languished in the archives in Denmark until its re-discovery by the KØN – Gender Museum Denmark in 2021.
A new 4k digital scan was made by the DJCAD Media Preservation Lab at the University of Dundee in October 2021. …
Text on Anna by A. Grifi and M. Sarchielli in “Video 79″/Video Festival 1974-75. pdf here …
Under the direction of Ian Breakwell and Mike Leggett, labourers spend a day shovelling earth around in a circle of piles in the upper gallery space (at Angela Flowers Gallery, London). The action is relayed by closed-circuit video to a monitor in the ground floor gallery window, and is often confused by passers-by with activities of Apollo 14 astronauts on the Moon, showing on most televisions elsewhere.
The durational video event ‘One’ may be the first UK video performance/installation piece. …
‘Britannica’ technical details and Xerox image, ‘Prospect 71’, Dusseldorf 1971. pdf here …
‘Art after Physics’ programme, London Film Makers Co-op, 1991. pdf here …
Poster for the screenings by the Filmaktion Group, 1973, includes the work ‘Four wall duration’ by LeGrice.pdf here …
