LEADER 00000cgm a2200553Ii 4500 001 219925803 003 OCoLC 005 20160927094927.0 008 841214r19791958xxu004 maeng d 040 AU@|beng|erda|cAU@|dOCLCF|dOCLCO|dCUY 245 00 Free radicals /|cfilm by Len Lye ; music by the Bagirmi tribe of Africa. 250 [1979 revised version] 257 United States. 264 1 [United States] :|b[publisher not identified],|c[1980?]. 264 4 |c©1980 300 1 film reel (approximately 4 min.) :|bsound, black and white ;|c16 mm 306 000400 336 two-dimensional moving image|btdi|2rdacontent 337 projected|bg|2rdamedia 338 film reel|bmr|2rdacarrier 344 analog|boptical|gmono|2rda 500 Reworked by Lye in 1979, with financial assistance from the New Zealand Film Commission; he deleted approximately 1 minute from his first version, made in 1958. 500 Aspect ratio: 1.37:1 500 "©1980 Len Lye Foundation"--End credit. 500 "This film was supported by a grant from the New Zealand Film Commission."--End credit. 500 This film is also distributed (along with other Lye titles --Color cry, Rhythm, Tal Farlow, and Particles in space) by Canyon Cinema, San Francisco. 500 The music used in this film is attributed to the Bagirmi Tribe, which the cataloger is unable to positively identify. Other sources consulted were inconclusive as to the source of the music. Lye may have edited the music to match visual rhythms of the film. 506 Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. Access by appt. only.|5CBPF 506 PFA 1604-01-16890. Restricted: For BAMPFA exhibition only. 508 Filmmaker Len Lye; music, the Bagirmi Tribe of Africa. 510 3 Len Lye : a biography / Roger Horrocks. Auckland, New Zealand : Aukland University Press, 2001. 510 3 Experimental animation : an illustrated anthology / by Robert Russett and Cecile Starr. New York : Van Nostren Reinhold, 1976. 520 A primitive kinetic dance of white lines and angles meticulously scratched onto black and white film over an 8 month period and then edited and retrospectively matched with an African field tape of the Bagirmi tribe. The title is a reference to modern physics, 'free radicals' being particles of energy. The original version was a major award winner at the Experimental Film Competition at the 1958 Brussels World Fair. This revised version was a reworking of the original by Lye in 1979. 520 "For his four-minute work 'Free Radicals' (begun in 1958 and completed in 1979), [Len] Lye made scratches directly into the film stock. These scratches became 'figures of motion' that appear in the finished film as horizontal and vertical lines and shapes dancing to the music of the Bagirmi tribe in Africa."--Library of Congress 2008 National Film Registry announcement. 520 "Some critics regard this as Lye's greatest film. He reduced the film medium to its most basic elements – light in darkness – by scratching designs on black film. On screen his scratches were as dramatic as lightning in the night sky. He used a variety of tools ranging from dental tools to an ancient Native American arrow-head, and synchronized the images to traditional African music ('a field tape of the Bagirmi tribe'). The film won second prize out of 400 entries in an International Experimental Film Competition judged by Man Ray, Norman McLaren, Alexander Alexeiff and others, at the 1958 World’s Fair in Brussels. In 1979 Lye decided to shorten this already very concentrated film from 5 to 4 minutes. Stan Brakhage described the final version as 'an almost unbelievably immense masterpiece (a brief epic).' In 2008 Free Radicals was selected by the U.S. Library of Congress as a 'classic film' that it would 'preserve for all time.' "--Len Lye Foundation website. 541 0 |3PFA 1604-01-16890. |aD0473 |cpurchase |d 6/15/2016 |5CBPF 585 1958 version shown at the 1958 International Experimental Film Competition (EXPRMNTL), Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium. 586 Second prize, 1958 International Experimental Film Competition, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium. 590 PFA 1604-01-16890. This print was purchased in honor of Sheldon Renan.|aPolyester base.|aCONDITION NOTE: Inspected 2017/07/01 cv; brand new, no scars of any kind. 655 7 Experimental films.|2lcgft 655 7 Short films.|2lcgft 655 7 Animated films.|2lcgft 700 1 Lye, Len,|d1901-1980,|efilmmaker. 710 2 Len Lye Centre. 956 20160927 |bpfmcq|cCCE 957 OCLC xref loaded 20161023 994 C0|bCUY