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Free Radicals

Free Radicals

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Released: 23 April 1958
Country of origin: US, New Zealand
Genre: Animation General, Music
Production companies: New Zealand Film Commission
Watched by: 1 of 866 301
Runtime: 5 minutes
IMDB rating: 6.3 of 10 1 207

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

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Free Radicals - Len Lye (1958)

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