Len Lye Movies

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,...

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...

Lye edited together “swing” versions of the popular Lambeth Walk (including Django Reinhardt on guitar and Stephane Grapelli on violin),...

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

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

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

Experimental documentary about recycling.

Documentary about the Kiwi artist Len Lye and his legacy.

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

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

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.

Documentary about New York night clubs.

Documentary about women factory workers.

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

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

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

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

Len Lye usually timed his films with great care to match their soundtracks, but for All Souls Carnival, he and composer Henry Brant worked...