Color Cry
Overview
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
Release date
07/11/1952
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Original Soundtrack
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I'll Kill Myself!
The Light That Shines
Terra Incognita
LI.LI.TA.AL
Breakfast on the Grass
Mon Copain?
Le vœu
Iizuna Fair
Drums West
Cow on the Moon
Apartment is as Quiet as Paper
Alexander the Grape
Mask of the Red Death
The Stairs
Baraa
Ayesha
The Ancestor
Audio Video
Picnic
Arbitrary Logic