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Len Lye

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New Zealand artist, film maker and poet (1901-1980)

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Leonard Charles Huia Lye was a New Zealand artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. His films are held in archives including the New Zealand Film Archive, British Film Institute, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Pacific Film Archive at University of California, Berkeley.

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Filmography 36

Free Radicals1958 · ★ 6.0
A Colour Box1935 · ★ 6.0
Rainbow Dance1936 · ★ 6.3
Trade Tattoo1937
Rhythm1957
Tusalava1929
Swinging the Lambeth Walk1940
Colour Flight1937
Kaleidoscope1935
Experimental Animation1933
The Birth of the Robot1936
Color Cry1952
Particles in Space1980
Cameramen at War1943
Tal Farlow1981
Musical Poster #11942
N or NW1938
When the Pie Was Opened1941
Kill or Be Killed1942
Abstract Cinema1993
Life's Musical Minute1953
All Souls Carnival1957
Secrets of British Animation2018
Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye1987
Newspaper Train1942
Fountain of Hope/Peace1959
March of Time: Night Club Boom1945
Ariel’s Song / Full Fathom Five1953
Len Lye: Master of Motion2022
Art of the Sixties1967
Prime Time1958
Planned Crops1942
Work Party1942
Pictures for Percussion1958
Flip & Two Twisters1995
Collapsible Metal Tubes1942

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Television 1

Crusade in Europe1949

Connected to Len 2

Directors from New Zealand 4

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Leonard Charles Huia Lye was a New Zealand artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. His films are held in archives including the New Zealand Film Archive, British Film Institute, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Pacific Film Archive at University of California, Berkeley. Lye's sculptures are found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Berkeley Art Museum. Although he became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1950, much of his work went to New Zealand after his death, where it is housed at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth.

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New Zealand
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Directors
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Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1901 to 1980 · aged 78
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8 languages

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