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Len Lye : a biography / Roger Horrocks Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2001.
Call No: 81LYE HORAuthor: Horrocks, Roger Source: NZPlace: AucklandPublisher: Auckland University PressPubDate: 2001PhysDes: 436p. ; b+w ill. : 25cm.Subject: LYE, LEN Summary: The life of an extraordinary New Zealander told for the first time. A charismatic personality Lye was a major New Zealand artist and a leading figure in international modernism who lived in London and New York but always retained a South Pacific energy and informality. There is a growing interest in his work and it is well illustrated in this book.[taken from description]Notes: Includes indexISBN: 1869402472Language: English
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Len Lye / edited by Tyler Cann & Wystan Curnov Melbourne: Australian Centre for the Moving Image, 2009.
Call No: 81LYE LENAuthor: Cann, Tyleer ; Curnov, Wystan Place: MelbournePublisher: Australian Centre for the Moving ImagePubDate: 2009PhysDes: xiii, 184 p. : col. ill. ; 30 cmSubject: EXPERIMENTA MEDIA ARTS ; LYE, LEN Summary: New Zealand-born Len Lye (1901-1980) is one of the most innovative artists of the mordernist era and a seminal figure in the history of the moving image.
Lye pioneered techniques of 'direct filmmaking', which involves painting and scratching imagery directly onto celluloid. His films such as A Colour Box (1935) and Free Radicals (1958) have been cinematic landmarks of artistic expression, influencing successive generations of filmmakers, aartists, animators and designers.
While the critical recognition of Lye's films has increased, less well-known is the arange of styles, media, and places in which the atrist worked. Len Lye reveals the links and connections that inform and unite his diverse practice, which include experiemntal films, paintings, and drawings, photographic works and remarkable motion sculptures.
This special edition publication accompanies Len Lye, the largest and most comprehensive exhibition of the artist's work to date, at the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI) in Melbourne. Organised by ACMI and the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth, New Zealand), the exhibition-like this book- features works never before exhibited, and follows the technical processes and conceptual threads that run through the artist's career.- BOOK JACKETNotes: 'This ACMI special edition of Len Lye is published to accompany the ACMI Screen Gallery exhibition: Len Lye 16 July-11 October 2009'--Verso.
'Presented by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), in collaboration with the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery (New Plymouth, New Zealand), and with the support of The Len Lye Foundation'--Verso.
Bibliography: p. 175-181ISBN: 9781920805272Contents: --Foreword / Tony Sweeny -- Foreword / Rhana Devenport -- Len Lye: An Artist in Perpetual Motion / Alessio Cavallaro & Tyler Cann -- Introduction / Tyler Cann & Wystan Curnow -- Swinging the lambeth Walk: The Hand of the Filmmaker / Roger Horrocks -- Force Field and Sonic Wave / Guy Brett -- Surreal Sight Seer? Len Lye, Mind, Self, and Time / Tyler Cann -- Planting at Night / Evan Webb -- Len Lye's Portait Photograms / Wystan Curnow -- Len Lye and Colour: A Carnival of Soul / Tessa Laird -- Five Fountains: Len, Lye, and Scale / Tyler Cann -- Lexicon -- Chronology -- Bibliography - Contributors -- Photo credits
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Making images move : handmade cinema and the other arts / Gregory Zinman Oakland, California: University of California Press, 2020.
Call No: 721-051[7] ZINAuthor: Zinman, Gregory Edition: 2020Place: Oakland, CaliforniaPublisher: University of California PressPubDate: 2020PhysDes: xvi, 372 pages : illustrated ; 26cmSubject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS ; BELSON, JORDAN ; BRAKHAGE, STAN ; DEBORD, GUY ; LYE, LEN ; MCLAREN, NORMAN ; PAIK, NAM JUNE ; RICHTER, HANS ; TRAITE DE BAVE ET D'ETERNITE (FR, Isidore Isou, 1951) ; SCHNEEMANN, CAROLEE ; VIDEO ART Summary: Making Images Move reveals a new history of cinema by uncovering its connections to other media and art forms. In this richly illustrated volume, Gregory Zinman explores how moving-image artists who worked in experimental film pushed the medium toward abstraction through a number of unconventional filmmaking practices, including painting and scratching directly on the film strip; deteriorating film with water, dirt, and bleach; and applying materials such as paper and glue. This book provides a comprehensive history of this tradition of “handmade cinema” from the early twentieth century to the present, opening up new conversations about the production, meaning, and significance of the moving image. From painted film to kinetic art, and from psychedelic light shows to video synthesis, Gregory Zinman recovers the range of forms, tools, and intentions that make up cinema’s shadow history, deepening awareness of the intersection of art and media in the twentieth century, and anticipating what is to come. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780520302730Donation: Footprint Books
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The music and sound of experimental film / edited by Holly Rogers and Jeremy Barham New York: Oxford Univesity Press,
Call No: 771 MUSAuthor: Rogers, Holly ; Barham, Jeremy Edition: 2017Place: New YorkPublisher: Oxford Univesity PressPhysDes: xvi, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmSubject: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS ; COLOUR BOX, A (UK, Len Lye, 1935) ; AVANT-GARDE FILMS ; LYE, LEN ; MCLAREN, NORMAN ; BRAKHAGE, STAN ; AKERMAN, CHANTAL ; SMITH, JOHN ; COMPILATION FILMS ; CHIEN ANDALOU, UN (FR, Luis Bunuel, 1928) Summary: This book explores music/sound-image relationships in non-mainstream screen repertoire from the earliest examples of experimental audiovisuality to the most recent forms of expanded and digital technology. It challenges presumptions of visual primacy in experimental cinema and rethinks screen music discourse in light of the aesthetics of non-commercial imperatives. Several themes run through the book, connecting with and significantly enlarging upon current critical discourse surrounding realism and audibility in the fiction film, the role of music in mainstream cinema, and the audiovisual strategies of experimental film. The contributors investigate repertoires and artists from Europe and the USA through the critical lenses of synchronicity and animated sound, interrelations of experimentation in image and sound, audiovisual synchresis and dissonance, experimental soundscape traditions, found-footage film, re-mediation of pre-existent music and sound, popular and queer sound cultures, and a diversity of radical technological, aesthetic, tropes in film media traversing the work of early pioneers such as Walther Ruttmann and Len Lye, through the mid-century innovations of Norman McLaren, Stan Brakhage, Lis Rhodes, Kenneth Anger, Andy Warhol, and studio collectives in Poland, to latter-day experimentalists John Smith and Bill Morrison, as well as the contemporary practices of Vjing. -- publisher's web siteISBN: 9780190469900Contents: Preface - Jeremy Barham -- Introduction - Holly Rogers -- Chapter 1: Absolute Sounding Images: Abstract Film and Radio Drama of the 1920s as Complementary Forms of a Media Specific Art - Dieter Daniels -- Chapter 2: A Primitivism of the Senses: The Role of Music in Len Lye's Experimental Animation, -- Malcolm Cook -- Chapter 3: An Educational Avant-Garde: Sound and Music in Julien Bryan's OIAA Films on Latin America, 1942-1949 - James Tobias -- Chapter 4: bup bup bup: Aural Innovation in the Films of Norman McLaren - Terence Dobson -- Chapter 5: Sights and Sounds of the Moving Mind: The Visionary Soundtracks of Stan Brakhage - Eric Smigel -- Chapter 6: Discontinuities and Resynchronisations: The Use of Sound in Polish Experimental Cinema from the 1930s to the 1980s - Daniel Muzyczuk -- Chapter 7: Grid Intensities: Hearing Structures in Chantal Akerman's Films of the 1970s - Paul Hegarty -- Chapter 8: Meaning and Musicality: Sound-Image Relations in the Films of John Smith - Andy Birtwistle -- Chapter 9: Audiovisual Dissonance in Found-Footage Film - Holly Rogers -- Chapter 10: Rebalancing the Picture/Sound Relationship: The Audiovisual Compositions of Lis Rhodes - Aimee Mollaghan -- Chapter 11: Sounding Decay in the Digital Age: Audio-Visions of Decasia (2002) and Lyrical Nitrate (1991) - Nessa Johnston -- Chapter 12: The Sound of Queer Experimental Film - Juan A. Suárez -- Chapter 13: Avant-Gardists and the Lure of Pop Music - Carol Vernallis -- Chapter 14: The Music of Gustav Mahler in Experimental Film Contexts: Questions of Visual Music and Intermedial Theory - Jeremy Barham -- index
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New Zealand filmmakers / edited by Ian Conrich and Stuart Murray Detroit, Mich: Wayne State University Press, C2007.
Call No: 71(931) NEWAuthor: Conrich, Ian (ed) ; Murray, Stuart (ed) Source: USPlace: Detroit, MichPublisher: Wayne State University PressPubDate: C2007PhysDes: xiii, 374 p. : ill. ; 23 cmSeries: Contemporary approaches to film and television seriesSubject: MAORI CINEMA ; NEW ZEALAND ; LYE, LEN ; O'SHEA, JOHN ; PRESTON, GAYLENE ; BARCLAY, BARRY ; MITA, MERATA ; WELLS, PETER ; DONALDSON, ROGER ; MURPHY, GEOFFREY ; MUNE, IAN ; LAWRENCE, BRUNO ; LAING, JOHN ; REID, JOHN ; NARBEY, LEON ; WARD, VINCENT ; CAMPION, JANE ; MACLEAN, ALISON ; JACKSON, PETER (NZ) ; BLYTH, DAVID ; BAD BLOOD (NZ, Mike Newell, 1981) ; BEYOND REASONABLE DOUBT (NZ, John Laing, 1980) ; BOUNTY, THE (UK/US, Roger Donaldson, 1984) ; BRAINDEAD (NZ, Peter Jackson, 1992) ; BRIDGE TO NOWHWERE (NZ, Ian Mune, 1986) ; CADILLAC MAN (US, Roger Donaldson, 1990) ; DEATH IN THE FAMILY, A [TV] (NZ, Stewart Main and Peter Wells, 1987) ; END OF THE GOLDEN WEATHER, THE (NZ, Ian Mune, 1991) ; FORGOTTEN SILVER (NZ, Peter Jackson & Costa Botes, 1996) ; HOLY SMOKE (US, Jane Campion, 1999) Summary: "New Zealand cinema is now applauded worldwide for its achievements and, in theis book, it is the subject of the wide-ranging critical analysis. The essays here describe an incredible progression from early New Zealand films to the blockbusters of the present. They outline industrial achievements, the workings of film form, and the effect that New Zealand cinema has as part of the country's culture. Taken together, the essays are a fitting tribute to all those who have worked in the industry." -- From the forward by Terence BaylerNotes: Bibliography: p. 349-353; Includes indexISBN: 9780814330173 (pbk : alk paper); 0814330177 (pbk : alk paper)
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Nonfiction film : a critical history / by Richard Meran Barsam ; foreword by Richard Dyer MacCann London: Allen and Unwin, 1974.
Call No: 761 BARAuthor: Barsam, Richard Meran Place: LondonPublisher: Allen and UnwinPubDate: 1974PhysDes: xix, 332 p. : ill., ports. ; 22 cmSubject: NON-FICTION FILMS ; DOCUMENTARY FILMS ; CINEMA-DIRECT ; PROPAGANDA FILMS ; WAR FILMS ; ANDERSON, LINDSAY ; CAPRA, FRANK ; CAVALCANTI, ALBERTO ; VAN DONGEN, HELEN ; DOVZENKO, ALEKSANDR ; FLAHERTY, ROBERT ; GRIERSON, JOHN ; HUSTON, JOHN ; IVENS, JORIS ; JENNINGS, HUMPHREY ; KING, ALLAN ; LEACOCK, RICHARD ; LYE, LEN ; MAYSLES, ALBERT & DAVID ; PENNEBAKER, D. A. ; REISZ, KAREL ; RIEFENSTAHL, LENI ; ROTHA, PAUL ; RUTTMAN, WALTER ; STORCK, HENRI ; VAN DYKE, WILLARD ; VERTOV, DZIGA ; WADLEIGH, MICHAEL ; WATT, HARRY ; WISEMAN, FREDERICK ; WRIGHT, BASIL ; BOND, RALPH ; ANSTEY, EDGAR ; LORENTZ, PARE ; HAMMID, ALEXANDER ; ROGOSIN, LIONEL ; STEINER, RALPH ; ELTON, ARTHUR ; JACOBY, IRVING ; LAND, THE (US, Robert Flaherty, 1942) ; FIGHT FOR LIFE, THE (US, Pare Lorentz, 1940) ; MAISONS DE LA MISERE, LES (BE, Henri Storck, 1937) ; ALL OF MY BABIES : A MIDWIFE'S OWN STORY (US, George Stoney, 1952) ; BATTLE OF RUSSIA, THE (US, Frank Capra, 1944) ; LET THERE BE LIGHT (US, John Huston, 1946) ; DON'T LOOK BACK (US, D.A. Pennebaker, 1967) Summary: "Nonfiction film is the first work to document the whole history of nonfiction film from the 1920s to the present day. The main emphasis of the book is on the British and American cinema and hundreds of documentary, action, and 'actuality' films from Nanook of the North to Woodstock and Gimme Shelter are described, discussed and analysed, including films by the great pioneers such as Robert Flaherty, Basil Wright, John Grierson and Paul Rotha and the new experimental film makers like Richard Leacock, D. A. Pennebaker, Frederick Wiseman and Albert and David Maysles. Richard Barsam provides a critical framework against which the non-fiction film can be studied and enjoyed. Among the many topics covered are early American, Russian and Continental films, the British and American films of the twenties and thirties, the films of World War II and the whole range of styles and subjects of the fifties, sixties and today." -- BOOK BLURBNotes: Originally published: New York : Dutton, 1973; Bibl.: p.317-321. - List of films: p.299-316. - IndexISBN: 0047910313 (Pbk) : ª1.95; 0047910305LON: 1923477Contents: 1. Defining nonfiction film -- 2. The American, Russian, and continental beginnings -- 3. John Grierson and the early British documentary -- 4. British documentary in the later 1930's -- 5. European and American nonfiction film: 1930-1940 -- 6. The humanistic vision of Robert Flaherty -- 7. World War II on film -- 8. Nonfiction film in transition: 1940-1950 -- 9. Old traditions and new directions: 1950-1960 -- 10. The new nonfiction film: 1960-1970URL status: URL: 'http://-'
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Visionary film : the American avant-garde / P. Adams Sitney New York: Oxford University Press, 1979.
Call No: 771.1(73) SITAuthor: Sitney, P. Adams Edition: 2d edPlace: New YorkPublisher: Oxford University PressPubDate: 1979PhysDes: xiv, 463 p. : ill. ; 24 cmSubject: AVANT-GARDE FILMS. USA ; SURREALISM AND THE CINEMA ; ANGER, KENNETH ; BEAVERS, ROBERT ; BELSON, JORDAN ; BRAKHAGE, STAN ; BREER, ROBERT ; CROWLEY, ALEISTER ; BRAKHAGE, JANE ; BAILLIE, BRUCE ; BROUGHTON, JAMES ; CLARKE, SHIRLEY ; CONNER, BRUCE ; DEREN, MAYA ; FRAMPTON, HOLLIS ; GEHR, ERNIE ; JACOBS, KEN ; JORDAN, LARRY ; LANDOW, GEORGE ; LYE, LEN ; MACLAINE, CHRISTOPHER ; MARKOPOULOS, GREGORY ; MEKAS, JONAS ; NELSON, ROBERT ; PETERSON, SIDNEY ; RAINER, YVONNE ; SHARITS, PAUL ; SMITH, HARRY ; SMITH, JACK ; SNOW, MICHAEL ; WARHOL, ANDY ; WHITNEY, JAMES ; RICE, RON ; MAAS, WILLARD ; KUBELKA, PETER ; DUCHAMP, MARCEL ; CORNELL, JOSEPH Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexISBN: 0195024850 : $15.95; 0195024869(pbk.)LON: 1228317
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