Len Lye (1901-1980) was a pioneer of experimental animation, and also of kinetic sculpture. This short film dramatically presents 18 minutes inside the head of the artist as a teenager. The opening ...

This is the creepiest puppet film ever made, an experimental piece by filmmaker Len Lye in 1933. What better way to greet the new year, than to watch a mind-blowing set of incredible abstract works by ...

New Zealand film-maker Len Lye has been hailed in Brazil as “a virtuoso and master of animation, who continues to be a source of inspiration for countless film-makers.” A retrospective of Lye’s work ...

Len Lye was an art student in New Zealand early last century. He wrote, 'One of my art teachers put me on to the idea of finding my own art theory. After many morning walks an idea hit me like a ...

Ok, so imagine you’re the post office and you need to make three animated shorts to illustrate the following concepts: new parcel rates, post office savings accounts,and the value of posting your ...

The career of Walt Disney has given many artists something new to think about. They like to think that movie animation is in its infancy, that Silly Symphonies are preludes to Serious Symphonies which ...

Len Lye scraped together enough funding and borrowed equipment to produce a two-minute short featuring his self-made monkey, singing and dancing to 'Peanut Vendor', a 1931 jazz hit for Red Nichols.

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