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Free Radicals
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".
- Year: 1958
- Country: United States of America, New Zealand
- Genre: Animation, Music
- Studio: New Zealand Film Commission
- Keyword: abstract, short animated film
- Director: Len Lye
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