Rainbow Dance
Len Lye UK, 1936, 5', 35 mm
Rainbow Dance employs shot footage and overlays it with a number of abstract colour effects. Lye experimented with the colour stock Gasparcolor, using it to create 'fantastic', rather than 'realistic' images. Gasparcolor stock contained three levels of dye on the celluloid, which Lye manipulated through different levels of exposure. When shooting the original footage, Lye used black and white sets, which allowed him to adjust the colours later in a controlled way. At times Lye uses complex stencil patterns on the silhouetted figure, producing the 'colour echoes' that appear throughout the film. (Jamie Sexton)
Thu 27/9 Kino SC 20:00
