Len Lye Movies
- 1958
Free Radicals
Free Radicals5.8831958HD
In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using...
- 1935
A Colour Box
A Colour Box6.011935HD
Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.
- 1936
Rainbow Dance
Rainbow Dance6.0231936HD
Rainbow Dance is a 1936 British animated film released by the GPO Film Unit. This is Lye's second film. It uses the Gasparcolor process.
- 1952
Bells of Atlantis
Bells of Atlantis5.11952HD
A perfect fusion of poetry and film, with dense layered imagery and music from electro pioneers Louise and Bebe Barron. The writer Anaïs Nin...
- 1937
Trade Tattoo
Trade Tattoo5.9291937HD
Trade Tattoo went even further than Rainbow Dance in its manipulation of the Gasparcolor process. The original black and white footage consisted of...
- 2018
Secrets of British Animation
Secrets of British Animation62018HD
BBC Four’s new documentary takes us on a journey through more than a century of animation. It examines the creative and technical inventiveness...
- 1967
Art of the Sixties
Art of the Sixties01967HD
This film documents the major directions in modern American art during the first seven years of the 1960s. The keynote is that the artist has...
- 1929
Tusalava
Tusalava5.7271929HD
With the screen split asymmetrically, one part in positive, the other negative, the film documents the evolution of simple celled organic forms into...
- 1941
When the Pie Was Opened
When the Pie Was Opened81941HD
Surrealism, avant-garde sound montage, and irreverent wit might be the last thing you'd expect from a government-sponsored film about wartime...
- 1987
Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye
Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye01987HD
This documentary, made seven years after the death of legendary filmmaker and kinetic artist Len Lye, tells Lye's story: from being a young boy...
- 1942
Work Party
Work Party01942HD
Documentary about women factory workers.
- 1995
Flip & Two Twisters
Flip & Two Twisters01995HD
Documentary about the Kiwi artist Len Lye and his legacy.
- 1957
Rhythm
Rhythm6.081957HD
Intended as a publicity film for Chrysler, Rhythm uses rapid editing to speed up the assembly of a car, synchronizing it to African drum music. The...
- 1942
Kill or be Killed
Kill or be Killed41942HD
A fictional enactment of the deadly contest between a British soldier and a German sniper hiding in a tree. Kill or Be Killed differs from most army...
- 1941
Hoch der Lambeth Valk
Hoch der Lambeth Valk7.31941HD
A 1941 Ministry of Information propaganda film set to the tune of The Lambeth Walk, a popular song from the musical Me and My Girl.
- 1942
Newspaper Train
Newspaper Train51942HD
The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accurate and objective press on the home front.
- 1942
Planned Crops
Planned Crops01942HD
Short comedic documentary about crops.
- 1940
Swinging the Lambeth Walk
Swinging the Lambeth Walk5.8161940HD
Lye edited together “swing” versions of the popular Lambeth Walk (including Django Reinhardt on guitar and Stephane Grapelli on violin),...
- 1936
The Birth of the Robot
The Birth of the Robot6.8181936HD
This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many...
- 1933
Experimental Animation
Experimental Animation6.5831933HD
Len Lye scraped together enough funding and borrowed equipment to produce a two-minute short featuring his self-made monkey, singing and dancing to...