Free Radicals

Free Radicals

Free Radicals

Release date : 1958-04-23

Production country :

United States of America,

New Zealand

Production company :

New Zealand Film Commission

Status : Released

Durasi : 5 Min.

Popularity : 3.587

5.9

Total Vote : 65

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".