Free Radicals

Free Radicals (1958)

  • Runtime

    0h 5m

  • Language

    EN

  • Production Countries

    United States of America

  • Release Date

    1958-04-23

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".

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