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Free Radicals

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Confirmed1958-04-236.0

In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leather, 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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1958-04-23

No date confirmed for United States yet · Earliest worldwide: Festival / premiere in Belgium

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    Len Lye
    Len Lye
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