Free Radicals
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- Animation
- Music
Overview
In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leather, using a variety of tools from saw teeth to arrow heads. The first version of the film won a major award at the International Experimental Film Festival Held in Brussels in 1958 in association with the World's Fair. Stan Brakhage described the film as "an almost unbelievably immense masterpiece".
Keywords
- short film
- abstract
Details
- Status
- Released
- Release date
- April 23, 1958
- Original language
- English
- Countries
- United States of America, New Zealand
- Production
- New Zealand Film Commission
- Director
- Len Lye
- Budget
- Not recorded
- Revenue
- Not recorded
- Homepage
- Official site
- IMDb
- tt0051634