Len Lye Filmes

For Kaleidoscope, which was sponsored by Churchman Cigarettes, Lye animated stenciled cigarette shapes and is said to have experimented by cutting...

Documentary about women factory workers.

Lye created a series of scratched images in the 1950s – more regular or geometric than his usual style – to accompany Rock...

With the screen split asymmetrically, one part in positive, the other negative, the film documents the evolution of simple celled organic forms into...

Short comedic documentary about crops.

Lye completed his last great film a few months before his death at the age of 78. The film returned to the black-and-white techniques of Free...

Experimental documentary about recycling.

Several well-known and pioneering abstract filmmakers discuss the history of non-objective cinema, the works of those that came before them and their...

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accurate and objective press on the home front.

A British WWII propaganda short warning citizens that Nazi sympathizers could be listening to their everyday conversations to discover important...

Len Lye made Pictures for Percussion as a sample for television stations while living in the United States.

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using...

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked...

Documentary about New York night clubs.

Life’s Musical Minute, recently re-discovered, is a short promotional film of this kind, based on Gene Krupa’s drum solo from...

Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.

While stocking the shelves at work late at night, Mike finds a mysterious tape that calls upon The Peanut Vendor.

This was another sample promotional film, which Lye offered to television stations. He scratched some dramatic black-and-white abstract images,...

Commissioned by the Pittsburgh Bicentennial Association to celebrate the city’s 200th anniversary, PITTSBURGH was created by a team of...

Master of Motion follows Len Lye, New Zealand's greatest international artist, and showcases his visionary work in film and sculpture and his...