Free Radicals is a short animated film by artist and experimental film maker Len Lye.
Lye often painted, scratched, stencilled and even cut holes in film, composing motion and colour to extraordinary effect. In this particular video, Lye directly scratched the film stock, with the resulting "figures of motion" set to music of the Bagirmi tribe of Africa.
To see more of his work go here
I saw the re-release of "Wake In Fright" last night, bloody ripper mate.
'Brutal, uncompromising and stunning WAKE IN FRIGHT tells is the story of a young teacher, John Grant, who arrives in a rough outback mining town planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But, on this one hot night in Bundanyabba, Grant decides to go into a smoky, crowded pub...
However, one night stretches to five, in which he discovers gambling, ruins himself financially and plunges headlong toward his own destruction.'
For many years, the only known print of Wake In Fright, found in Dublin in the 1990s, was of insufficient quality to transfer to DVD or video. In reaction to this, in 1994, Wake in Fright’s editor Anthony Buckley began to search for a better-quality print of the film. In 2004, in Pittsburgh, Buckley found a print of Wake in Fright in a shipping container labelled “For Destruction.” WIKI
