Blackbird Descending (Tense Alignment) (1977) & After Lumiere–L’Arroseur Arrosé (1974). Le Grice is author of Abstract Film and Beyond and was principal theorist of the the English Materialist film movement of the 1970’s. “Like poet Wallace Stevens, Le Grice gives us thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird with fresh eyes.” (Ken Wlaschin)