FORUM FLIP & TWO TWISTERS,
A DOCUMENTARY ABOUT LEN LYE
Screening of Shirley Horrocks’ documentary Flip & Two Twisters – a documentary about the great film maker and kinetic sculptor Len Lye from 1995.
The film explores Lye’s career, and how he came to develop an original “art of motion”. It includes examples of Lye’s film making and video documentation of his kinetic sculptures, among them the spectacular work Flip and Two Twisters. The film also chronicles resent attempts made by The Len Lye Foundation to realize Lyes plans for giant versions of his sculpture.
Before the screening, art historian Eva Rem Hansen will give a short introduction, focusing on Lye’s career as a sculptor and the relation between his films and this sculptural works.
Len Lye (1901-1980) is to the general audience a rather unknown artist from the previous century. Despite this his works are well known among artists, as well as filmmakers. His kinetic sculptures are made of steel, wood and fibreglass, often dramatically staged with lights, and his films were groundbreaking. The exhibition at Hordaland Art Centre shows six of his films made between 1935 and 1979.
Screening of Flip & Two Twisters – a documentary about he great film maker and kinetic sculptor Len Lye coutersy of Point of view productions.