Set animation and experimentation

Animated shapes dance to Cuban music. This was one of the first animations to be painted directly onto the film.

A new type of "direct" film, made by the rayogram or "shadow cast" process. Strips of film were exposed without the use of a camera. Patterns were created by placing stencils and coloured gels over the film. Lye synchronised this to a piece of blues music.

Print courtesy of the New Zealand Film Archive Nga Kaitiaki of Nga Taonga Whitiahua with kind permission of the Len Lye Foundation.

The Film Festival has a bug. Decaff is short, he lives in a cinema world and is not user-friendly. He is the bad-tempered little knot we all have inside us - he does what you wish you could.

Decaff is a very bad-tempered character who drinks too much coffee and loses his temper easily. Five new animated Decaff episodes.

An animated anti-nuclear film during which an earth man flies a rocket to Venus. The survivors of an atomic war explain the demise of their once great civilization.

Print courtesy of the New Zealand Film Archive Nga Kaitiaki of Nga Taonga Whitiahua with kind permission of the Fred O'Neill Estate.

A father struggles between his instinct to protect and the need to set his deaf boy free. Loosely based on the ancient story of Daedelus and Icarus

One man's attempt to fit in with the world around him and gain the acceptance of his neighbours. A black comedy about the perils of conformity.

Two nuns embark on an adventure to find an illusive available toilet.

A 'DELF' (digitally engineered life form) is deployed to infect a corporate computer system - it's mission: to destroy the 'student loan' of it's hacker-creator. How will the little three-fingered hero get into the bank's records vault?

Reinvents a moment in New Zealand's past, the 1953 Royal Visit.

The boy in the film is fascinated by a picture of the Queen on the lid of a cake-tin. She remains magical even when he sees her in her limousine...

Len Lye began work on this animated film about organic life in a primary stage in 1927: I doodled to assuage my hunger for some hypnotic image I'd never seen before, drawing upon Maori, Aboriginal and Samoan traditions.

In a busy Auckland Street a series of chance encounters connects the lives of a random cross section of the public. This acclaimed short film is recognized as a classic.