Len Lye Filmes

A perfect fusion of poetry and film, with dense layered imagery and music from electro pioneers Louise and Bebe Barron. The writer Anaïs Nin...

In 1959 the United Nations commissioned Lye to make this one-minute film, “Fountain of Hope,” to publicize United Nations Day (24th...

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

Len Lye’s camera-less film animates “swing” versions of the popular Lambeth Walk—featuring Django Reinhardt on guitar and...

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...

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

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.

Short comedic documentary about crops.

Documentary about women factory workers.

Surrealism, avant-garde sound montage, and irreverent wit might be the last thing you'd expect from a government-sponsored film about wartime...

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

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

Documentary about the Kiwi artist Len Lye and his legacy.

Documentary about New York night clubs.

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

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

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...

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

Experimental documentary about recycling.

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