Free Radicals: A History Of Experimental Cinema is just that. Thankfully, the film-maker quickly disposes of the premise of "Let's examine experimental film by showing MY home movies and film experiments" and gets on with the task at hand. Featuring clips of the hypnotic scratch animation techniques of Len Lye,
the found footage 'letterist' films of Maurice Lemaitre,
the pre-Python animations of Stan Vanderbeek,
the undulating film paintings of Stan Brakhage, (the film-maker used Brakhage's 'Existence Is Song' which I couldn't find on Youtube)
and Len Lye's gorgeous 'Rainbow Dance',
I enjoyed Free Radicals when it simply does what it's supposed to do.
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