Len Lye

FILM

Film historian William Moritz wrote that "Len Lye's films constitute one of the most important achievements in the field of Visual Music and Experimental Film."  Although similar techniques had been used earlier, Lye went further than any other film-maker with his "direct" method of painting, scratching and stencilling images directly onto celluloid.

 

See also:

Complete Filmography of Len Lye's film work.

International Distributors of Len Lye's work on film and video

 

 

Still: Free Radicals

Free Radicals

4 min, 16 mm b&w, 1958 revised 1979, USA
Still: Color Cry

Color Cry

3 min, 16mm Kodachrome,1952-3, USA
Still: Newspaper Train

Newspaper Train

5 min, 35mm b/w, 1942, USA
Still: Trade Tattoo

Trade Tattoo

5 min, 35mm Technicolor, 1937, UK
Still: Rainbow Dance

Rainbow Dance

5 min, 35mm Gasparcolour, 1936, UK
Still: A Colour Box

A Colour Box

4 min, 35mm Dufaycolour, 1935, UK
 
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