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Artist's Profile: Len Lye Len Lye was born in New Zealand and studied animation in Australia. After a two-year hiatus in the Samoan Islands, he went to London, where he found work in the theater. Through the London Film Society, he made his first animated movie TUSALAVA in 1928. Under the direction of John Grierson of the Film Unit of the General Post Office, he produced several innovative films in the 1930s, including COLOUR BOX, the first cameraless film. Lye moved to the New York in 1944, where he mainly concentrated on his kinetic sculpture, although he did make five more films, most notably the award-winning FREE RADICALS. Selected Filmography
A collection of Len Lye's sculptures, paintings, drawings, photographs and memorabilia along with many manuscripts and publications is housed at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery. For more on Lye, contact the Len Lye Foundation: c/o The Govett Brewster Art Gallery Box 647 New Plymouth New Zealand Tel: (64-6) 7585149 Fax: (64-6) 7580390 BibliographyCameraless Films Absolut PanushkaCome Closer Absolut Panushka Light Shows Absolut Panushka Norman McLaren and Jules Engel: Post-Modernists William Moritz. "Towards and Aesthetics of Visual Music." William Moritz. ASIFA Canada Bulletin. v.14 n.3 (Dec 1986): 1-3. "Le Gasparcolor: une procédure chromatique." William Moritz. Lecture. Musée du Louvre, 6 October 1995. "Influence and Inspiration: the Great Tradition of Visual Music." William Moritz. Exhibition catalog. KINETICA 2. Los Angeles: The iotaCenter, 2000. "Visuelle Musik: Höhlenmalereien für MTV? (Visual Music: Cave Painting to MTV?)" William Moritz. Sound & Vision. Frankfurt: Deutsches Filmmuseum, 1993, 132-145. "The Italians Who Invented the Drawn-On Film Technique" Giannalberto Bendazzi The Absolute Film Dr. William Moritz. WRO99, Media Art Biennale, 1999. LinksThe Len Lye Foundation New Zealand |