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Colour Flight

Len Lye

1938

Country: New Zealand

Duration: 4 mins

Colour,

Sound: Opt.

Available Format/s: 16mm

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Music “Honolulu Blues” by Red Nicholas and his Five Pennies.
LEN LYE chose a tune in which he captures and translates the pulsation (rhythm) in a cocktail of colour. We are treated to an “eye nash”, which even today seems fresh (or which they don’t make like that anymore.)

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