Free Radicals

Name: Free Radicals
Genre: Animation, Music
Released: 1958-04-23
Duration: 5 min
Rating: 3

Rating

3.0 (1)

Release Date

4/23/1958

Runtime

5 mins

Genres

Animation Music

Overview

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".

Status

Released

Original Language

English

Budget

Revenue

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A kinetic burst of hand-scratched white lines dancing across black film in sync with propulsive African drumming, a five-minute celebration of pure visual and sonic energy that feels like watching abstraction come alive.