Movies

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

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,...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

Documentary about New York night clubs.

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

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

This riot of color was a showcase for Lye’s hand-painted and stenciled imagery. Sponsored by Imperial Airways, it incorporates the...

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...

Documentary about the Kiwi artist Len Lye and his legacy.

Experimental documentary about recycling.

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