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Art That Moves: The Work of Len Lye

0.0 18 mins Documentary   Animation   2009
Auckland University Press   New Zealand Film Commission   The New Zealand Film Archive   Len Lye Foundation  
Director(s): Roger Horrocks

Release Date: 07 Tue, Jul 2009

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 scenes are set in New Zealand in the year 1917, on the day when Lye (setting out on his bicycle to deliver newspapers) makes his excited discovery that motion can be the basis for a radically new approach to art.

Casts of Art That Moves: The Work of Len Lye

Matthew Barnes

as Len Lye

Oscar Heim

as Young Len Lye

Michael Hurst

as Voice

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