1901 b. Christchurch, New Zealand Sculptor and Film Maker
1921 Moved to Australia to study film. 1923 - 1924 Spent two years in Samoa. 1926 Moved to London. Inspired by Joan Miro 1928 Involved with Seven and Five group ->. Completed Tusalava ->. 1929 Visits with Laura Riding -> and Robert Graves -> in Deya, Mallorca. 1930 Involvement with Nancy Cunard's Hours Press. Covers for Twenty Poems Less and Four Unposted Letters both by Laura Riding also Covers for Collected Poems by John Rodker ->. 1933 m. Jane Keeling. 1934 Quicksilver with text by Laura Riding. 1935 Directed Death of a Robot assisted by Humphrey Jennings Colour Box ->, a film made without a camera. 1936 Invited by Roland Penrose and Herbert Read to exhibit in the International Surrealist Exhibition, London At this time he was friends with John Banting, Edward Burra, Stanley William Haytor, Humphrey Jennings, Paul Nash and Dylan Thomas ->. By the end of the decade he was Britain's leading experimental Film Maker. 1946 Moved to New York. 1947 Ruthven Todd introduces him to Joan Miro. 1948 m. Ann Zeiss. 1980 d. may 15th. Rhode Island Bibliography Len Lye a Biography -> - Roger Horrocks (2001). See wiki -> and IMDB ->. See article and also -> and also -. See Senses of Cinema ->. See Timeline