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Len Lye
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New Zealand artist, film maker and poet (1901–1980)
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Christchurch, New Zealand
Leonard Charles Huia "Len" Lye (5 July 1901 – 15 May 1980), was a Christchurch, New Zealand-born artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. His films are held in archives including the New Zealand Film Archive, British Film Institute, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Pacific Film Archive at University of California, Berkeley.
Known for
- Len Lye: Master of Motion — Self (archive footage)2022
- Secrets of British Animation — Self (archive Photos)2018
- Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film — Himself (archive footage)2011
- Flip & Two Twisters — Self1995
- Abstract Cinema — Himself1993
- Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye — Self1987
- Art of the Sixties1967
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1. Len Lye, born Leonard Charles Huia Lye (5 July 1901, Christchurch, New Zealand - 15 May 1980, Warwick, New York), was a New Zealand-born artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. 2. Len Lye sings from fetal memory. With the aimlessness of a child, his vocal melodies weave between thoughtful chord progressions, offering a glimpse of an intimately familiar yet simultaneously unknowable world. Len roars with the desperate honesty of Neutral Milk Hotel <a href="h
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- New Zealand
- Place of birth
- Christchurch
- Place of death
- Warwick
- Occupation
- director
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- film
- Residence
- New York City
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- Len Lye
- date of birth
- 1901-07-05
- date of death
- 1980-05-15
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- has works in the collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
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