Color Flight
Len Lye UK, 1938, 4', 16 mm
"Painted and designed by Len Lye" and sponsored by Imperial Airways, Colour Flight (1938) utilised the emerging Gasparcolor technology as a fluid template for plane, fan, wave and bird shapes, exotic music, playful sound/shape conjunctions, and garish batiks of yellow, blue, red and orange. After disappearing into entirely graphic abstraction, planes and clouds re-emerge at film’s end with a brief advertising message.
Thu 22/9 Kino SC 18:00
