Search results for "Len Lye"
Bells of Atlantis

Bells of Atlantis

Bells of Atlantis
IMDb: 5.5
9

A perfect fusion of poetry and film, with dense layered imagery and music from electro pioneers Louise and Bebe Barron. The writer Anaïs Nin provides dialogue from her novella “House…

Free Radicals

Free Radicals

Free Radicals
IMDb: 6.3
5

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched “white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches” on to black leader, using a variety of tools from saw teeth to…

Genre: Animation, Music
Trade Tattoo

Trade Tattoo

Trade Tattoo
IMDb: 6.3
5

Trade Tattoo went even further than Rainbow Dance in its manipulation of the Gasparcolor process. The original black and white footage consisted of outtakes from GPO Film Unit documentaries such…

Genre: Animation
The Birth of the Robot

The Birth of the Robot

The Birth of the Robot
IMDb: 6.6
6

This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many European filmmakers turned to puppets as an alternative, and Lye enlisted…

Genre: Animation