Free Radicals (1958)

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Original Title: Free Radicals

Release Date: April 23, 1958

Runtime: 5 minutes

Budget: $0.0

Revenue: $0.0

Overview

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using a variety of tools from saw teeth to arrow heads. The first version of the film won a major award at the International Experimental Film Festival Held in Brussels in 1958 in association with the World's Fair. Stan Brakhage described the film as "an almost unbelievably immense masterpiece".

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Len Lye

Director

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