Leonard Charles Huia "Len" Lye (5 July 1901 – 15 May 1980), was a Christchurch, New Zealand-born artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. His films are held in archives including the New Zealand Film Archive, British Film Institute, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Pacific Film Archive at University of California, Berkeley.

KNOWN FOR

The Birth of the Robot
1936
Crusade in Europe
1949
Birth of a Nation
1997
Secrets of British Animation
2018
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
Newspaper Train
1942
Hoch der Lambeth Valk
1941
Kill or Be Killed
1942
Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye
1987
Peanuts
2023
Art of the Sixties
1967
Free Radicals
1958

FILMOGRAPHY

All
Movies
TV
Acting
8
Directing
31
Writing
1
Producing
1
Editing
1
Visual Effects
3
Crew
1
2022
Len Lye: Master of Motion
as Self (archive footage)
2018
Secrets of British Animation
as Self (archive Photos)
2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
as Himself (archive footage)
1997
Birth of a Nation
as Self
1995
Flip & Two Twisters
as Self
1993
Abstract Cinema
as Himself
1987
Doodlin': Impressions Of Len Lye
as Self
1967
Art of the Sixties