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Flip & Two Twisters

Television (Full Length) – 1995

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Flip & Two Twisters is Shirley Horrocks' documentary about New Zealand-born artist Len Lye. Known for his innovative filmmaking and kinetic sculptures, Lye's work gained him international acclaim within the London and New York avant-garde. The doco explores Lye's career and ideas, with the help of historical footage and excerpts from his films. It includes footage of Lye in typically exuberant form outlining his process, introduces his kinetic works, and documents the realization of his ambitious artistic plans in New Zealand. Arts columnist Mary-Jane Duffy provides further insight in this backgrounder.

Unless you can keep trying to find something that’s simply fascinating to you there’s not much point ... so wait until you’re in the mood ... and you find a piece of steel ... and you might go [rolls steel] like this with it, and roll it about ... and you gradually get the grip of an idea.
– Len Lye on the importance of getting in the mood