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Dancing in the Dark 2022
Filmstill Free Radicals
Free Radicals
Len Lye
Flashes of dots, squiggles and lines scratched on the black leader create a space and an energy field to the rhythm of percussive African tribal music.
Filmstill Free Radicals

Free Radicals

Free Radicals
Len Lye
Dancing in the Dark 2022
Animated Film
New Zealand
1979
4 minutes
without dialogue
Subtitles: 
None

Len Lye’s uncompromising and poetic reduction of movement to its absolute essence. Flashing dots, squiggles and lines scratched directly on the black leader, sometimes as compressed or stretched zigzags, sometimes as straight or feathered verticals. They start running, then dancing, creating in the dark void a space and energy field to the rhythm of percussive African tribal music.

André Eckardt

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Director
Len Lye