Len Lye Movies
- 1957
Rhythm
Rhythm6.1151957HD
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...
- 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...
- 1933
Experimental Animation
Experimental Animation6.6151933HD
Len Lye scraped together enough funding and borrowed equipment to produce a two-minute short featuring his self-made monkey, singing and dancing to...
- 1958
Free Radicals
Free Radicals5.8711958HD
In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using...
- 1943
Cameramen at War
Cameramen at War5.21943HD
A tribute to the cameramen of the newsreel companies and the service film units, in the form of a compilation of film of the cameramen themselves,...
- 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.
- 1953
Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five
Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five01953HD
Len Lye made this experiment in animating poetry circa 1953 utilising a clip of Sir John Gielgud reciting a passage from The Tempest.
- 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...
- 1959
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh01959HD
Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Bicentennial Association to celebrate the city’s 200th anniversary, PITTSBURGH was created by a team of...
- 1937
Trade Tattoo
Trade Tattoo5.91937HD
Trade Tattoo went even further than Rainbow Dance in its manipulation of the Gasparcolor process. The original black and white footage consisted of...
- 1936
Rainbow Dance
Rainbow Dance6.11936HD
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.
- 1993
Abstract Cinema
Abstract Cinema81993HD
Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and their...
- 1935
A Colour Box
A Colour Box61935HD
Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.
- 1952
Color Cry
Color Cry5.6111952HD
In 1944 Lye moved to New York City, initially to direct for the documentary newsreel The March of Time. He settled in the West Village, where he...
- 1936
The Birth of the Robot
The Birth of the Robot6.81936HD
This experiment was a “prestige advertisement” for Shell Motor Oil. As conventional animation became dominated by Walt Disney, many...
- 1938
N or NW
N or NW6.21938HD
Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends...
- 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...
- 2023
Peanuts
Peanuts02023HD
While stocking the shelves at work late at night, Mike finds a mysterious tape that calls upon The Peanut Vendor.
- 1952
Bells of Atlantis
Bells of Atlantis5.1581952HD
A perfect fusion of poetry and film, with dense layered imagery and music from electro pioneers Louise and Bebe Barron. The writer Anaïs Nin...
- 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...