len lye a colour box

I too made some films like this back in the late 70s. I was inspired not only by Len Lye, but also Norman McLaren and Harry Smith. It was a very time-consuming process.

Years ago we tried to make a film like this in summer camp! The counselor gave us kids a bunch of markers and had us draw directly onto a reel of clear movie film! We did, but the markers were not permanent and when we spooled the film back onto the reel the colors all smeared together into a mush. But we had fun doing it.

I had to do this too, as part of my experimental cinema section, ill admit it was differnt but i really enjoyed the change, at least you have a lot of other films to contrast it too as its so unique.

yeah i know what u mean. but sometimes when u are given something new to learn, u dont always tend to favour it immidiate, well that has been the case for me anyway, guess im unable to speak for others! :)

I think that what is fantastic about these types of videos is the amount of effort that goes into making them works of art! Seeing the colors and lines go right in time and rhythm with the music is really something to me. *Kind of reminds me of the sound-box from the first Fantasia.*

Chatterbox...sorry but you really need to go out and make some films of your own and when I say films I mean mimic Lyes style , play with light and  wonder in its magnificence..If you are contemplating ,seriously being a film maker rather than writing innane theory, I would learn to revel in Lyes wizardry before you critique it from your 2009 context

it was a subject i took in college (high school in the usa) for 2 yrs, this was a yr ago, and honeslty now i do appreciate ly's work. i think ill leave the film making to those who know their stuf and ill just focus on my psychology at what im good at! lol x

nice whan... yeah theres a lot of aspects of psychology in lyes work . I think thats what i love about it the most. it seems so simple but when you get down to the semiotic sstructure and ideological basis it gets extremely interesting, In my subjective I think lye was attempting to mirror the molecular world in hios films. Take tusalava for example. Its all about the way amibas devide and mutate. he was a pioneer and a next level one at that

when i did this at my advanced level (second yr of college) we were given an extract from this piece and were told that, this piece of lys work was done of him experimenting with colours and music ( we were studying experimental films as one of our modules), and that there was no deeper meaning within this video., however i guess everyone has their own interpretation of this, depending on how his work influences people

you've obviously never smoked weed