Dear Film Archive friends,
This Saturday Aug 1st at 3pm & 5.15pm, the New Zealand Film Festival
presents Len Lye Discoveries and Rarities.
If you think you know Lye’s work, Discoveries and Rarities includes a
variety of surprises, many of whom were recently discovered in the
vaults of MoMA, New York and subsequently restored at the New Zealand
Film Archive. Highlights include the animation Life’s Musical Minute
(with jazz by Woody Herman), a March of Time documentary about Atomic
power featuring Albert Einstein, and a sequence of dancing girls in
space that Lye contributed to the feature film Mad About Money.
The programme also includes Art that Moves, the first Wellington
screening of an 18-minute film by Roger Horrocks that dramatises Lye’s
teenage years (in Wellington in the 1910s) and his “Eureka!” moment
when he first came up with his idea of a new “art of motion.” Art that
Moves is produced by Shirley Horrocks, camera by Leon Narbey, funding
by Creative New Zealand.
Len Lye Discoveries and Rarities is supported by Stout Trust, the New
Zealand Film Archive and the Len Lye Foundation.
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Mark Williams
Exhibitions/Project Developer
Nga Kaitiaki O Nga Taonga Whitiahua
The New Zealand Film Archive
PO Box 11449 Wellington
Aotearoa, New Zealand
ph +64 4 384 7647 ext 829
fax +64 4 382 9595
http://www.filmarchive.org.nz
ON NOW - Sat Aug 1
Hold Still - an installation by Rachel Shearer
Mon-Weds 9-5pm
Thurs-Fri 9-7pm
Sat 4-7pm
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