Len Lye was a major figure in experimental filmmaking as well as a leading kinetic sculptor and an innovative theorist, painter and writer. He pioneered direct film, film made without a camera, by painting and scratching images directly onto celluloid, by reworking found footage, by casting shadows of objects onto unexposed film, and by experimenting with a number of early color techniques.
"There has never been a great film unless it was created in the spirit of the experimental filmmaker." - Len Lye
"All of a sudden it hit me: If there was such a thing as composing music, there could be such a thing as composing motion. After all, there are melodic figures, why can not there be figures of motion?" - Len Lye
This DVD contains:
A Colour Box, 1935, 4 min
Kaleidoscope, 1935, 4min
The Birth of the Robot, 1936, 7 min
Rainbow Dance, 1936, 5 min
Trade Tattoo, 1937, 5 min
Colour Flight, 1938, 4 min
Swinging the Lambeth Walk, 1939, 4 min
Color Cry, 1953, 3 min
Rhythm, 1957, 1 min
Free Radicals, 1958/1979, 4 min
Particles in Space, 1967-71/1980, 4 min
Tal Farlow, 1960/1980, 2 min
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