KUCHAR / LYE
George & Mike Kuchar PUSSY ON A HOT TIN ROOF 1961, 14 min, 8mm-to-16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. "It glows with the embers of desire! It smokes with the revelation of men and women longing for robust temptations that will make them sizzle into maturity with a furnace-blast of unrestrained animalism. A film for young and old to enjoy." –George Kuchar TOOTSIES IN AUTUMN 1963, 15 min, 8mm-to-16mm. Preserved by Anthology Film Archives with support from the National Film Preservation Foundation. A cautionary tale about past-their-prime thespians caught up in a typically Kucharian vortex of madness. Len Lye TUSALAVA (1929, 10 min, 16mm, silent) TRADE TATTOO (1937, 5 min, 35mm) RHYTHM (1957, 1 min, 16mm) FREE RADICALS (1958/79, 4 min, 16mm) A giant of experimental animation, Len Lye was born in New Zealand in 1901. He moved to England in the 1920s and subsequently to New York in 1944, where he spent the last 40 years of his life. A pioneer of "scratch" or "direct" filmmaking, Lye used various tools to mark patterns, shapes, and images directly onto the film's surface, and often explored the dynamic energy of abstract images propelled into life by lively jazz scores or Pacific-inspired rhythms.