Animation film made by Len Lye in 1958.
Len Lye was one of the few filmmakers working in inter-war Britain to have established an international reputation in experimental filmmaking. Though his British oeuvre was by no means limited to the making of abstract films, this was the area that most interested Lye and he has sometimes been viewed as the only genuine avant-garde filmmaker of this period. This is undoubtedly an overstated case, but Lye earned his reputation through a sustained and idiosyncratic body of films that were often brilliantly inventive and technically accomplished. Born in Christchurch, New Zealand in 1901, Lye began to develop a style of art based on ‘doodling’ from an early age, which stirred his interest in the ‘pre-rational’. He was deeply interested in movement and wanted to portray kinetic energy within artistic works; he also drew on aboriginal art, which for Lye again represented a ‘pre-rational’ artistic tradition.
I admire his works, this is really a great example. I love the music in this film, superb hypnotic tribal chant from ‘The Bagirmi Tribes Of Africa’, it fits so well with animation