UCSC: Porter 34B, Chaos, Fractals, and the Arts, Spring 2011

Len Lye, Biobib

Biography
  • 1901, Len b Christchurch, NZ
  • 1914, left school after 8th gr, work in factory
  • 1918, started art classes
  • 1923, interest in tribal art
  • 19xx, worked at filmads in sydney, first abstract film
  • 19xx, move to london, worked in film ad firm
  • 1929, first finished film, tusalava
  • 1950, moved to new york
  • 1980, died
Filmography (partial)
  • 1929, tusalava (b&w, no sound survived)
  • 1935, colour box, painted on film ***
  • 1936, rainbow dance
  • 1937, trade tatoo ***
  • 1938, N or NW
  • 1939, swinging the lambeth walk ***
  • 1942, kill or bekilled
  • 1952, color cry
  • 1957, all souls carnival
  • 1957, rhythm
  • 1958/1979, free radicals, scratched on film ***
  • 1979, particles in space
*** = on DVD
From Roger Horrocks, Art that Moves, 2009 (and wikipedia)
Revised 10 April 2011 by Ralph