Christchurch-born artist Len Lye (1901 - 1980) is an internationally renowned modernist filmmaker and kinetic sculptor. He is recognised as a front-running innovator in setting music to film, e.g. Swinging the Lambeth Walk (1939) and Free Radicals (1958). Lye travelled extensively in the South Pacific in the 1920s before moving to London in 1926 and then becoming a US citizen in 1950. His clips were posthumously programmed on MTV Europe and a retrospective of his work was shown at Centre Pompidou in Paris in 2000.
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