
Free Radicals
Free Radicals
Release date : 1958-04-23
Production country :
United States of America,
New Zealand
United States of America,
New Zealand
Production company :
New Zealand Film Commission
New Zealand Film Commission
Status : Released
Durasi : 5 Min.
Popularity : 0.0387
5.9
Total Vote : 67
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".
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