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Year
1958
Reference
F7706
Media type
Moving image
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Rights Information
Year
1958
Reference
F7706
Media type
Moving image
Place of production
New Zealand/Aotearoa
Categories
Short
Duration
0:04:23
Production company
DIRECT FILM COmpany
Credits
Director: Len Lye
Assisted: Paul Barnes
Assisted: Steven Jones
Drum Music: Bagirmi Tribe
Sponsor For The 1979 Version: New Zealand Film Commission

Made without a camera by scratching designs onto black leader using a variety of scribers ranging from Indian arrowheads to dental tools. “White ziggle-zag-splutter and scratches... in quite doodling fashion” - Len Lye.
Awarded 2nd prize by the International Experimental Film Competition at the 1958 Brussels World Fair.
“An almost unbelievable, immense masterpiece” Stan Brakhage

Original release 1958, definitively recomposed in 1979. Lye tightened this revision [5 min] by dropping some sequences.