Color Cry

6.0(10)19523m1

In 1944 Lye moved to New York City, initially to direct for the documentary newsreel The March of Time. He settled in the West Village, where he mixed with artists who later became the Abstract Expressionists, encouraged New York’s emerging filmmakers such as Francis Lee, taught with Hans Richter, and assisted Ian Hugo on Bells of Atlantis. Color Cry was based on a development of the “rayogram” or “shadow cast” process, using fabrics as stencils, with the images synchronized to a haunting blues song by Sonny Terry, which Lye imagined to be the anguished cry of a runaway slave. —Harvard Film Archive

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    6.0/10

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Status
Released
Budget
Box office
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  • abstract
  • short film
  • paint on film
  • experimental

Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereThe San Francisco Museum of Art7 Nov 1952

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Color Cry was released on 7 November 1952.
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Color Cry holds a 6.0/10 audience score from 10 votes.
Who directed Color Cry?
Color Cry (1952) was directed by Len Lye.
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Color Cry runs for 3m.

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