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.
Credits
Director
Len Lye