Len Lye Movies

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

Short comedic documentary about crops.

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

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...

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

Correspondence between young lovers nearly ends in disaster through a mistake in postal district. Fortunately the GPO spots the error and all ends...

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...

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

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

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,...

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

Len Lye made this experiment in animating poetry circa 1953 utilising a clip of Sir John Gielgud reciting a passage from The Tempest.

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

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

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

Documentary about New York night clubs.

Experimental documentary about recycling.