Len Lye Movies

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

Documentary about the Kiwi artist Len Lye and his legacy.

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

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.

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...

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

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

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...

The story of how newspapers were distributed during the Blitz, stressing the importance of an accurate and objective press on the home front.

Documentary about New York night clubs.

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

Documentary about women factory workers.

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

Short comedic documentary about crops.

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

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

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

Experimental documentary about recycling.

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

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