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Color Cry 彩色吶喊
1952
One of Len Lye’s first experimental films realised after the artist had moved to New York from London, Color Cry represents the Lye’s signature technique of ‘direct film’ made without the aid of a camera. Lye used stencils and fabrics to create sequences of colour and pattern directly on the filmstrip. The rhythmic motion of dots, bars, grids, and colour fields are accompanied by a soundtrack by blues musician Sonny Terry. Aware of the vibrant blues and jazz traditions in America, Lye linked his kaleidoscopic abstractions to an art form that emerged out of the historic and ongoing oppression of Black Americans.
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