In this powerful abstract film with a soundtrack of African drum music, Lye scratched "white ziggle-zag-splutter scratches" on to black leader, using a variety of tools from saw teeth to arrow heads. The first version of the film won a major award at the International Experimental Film Festival Held in Brussels in 1958 in association with the World's Fair. Stan Brakhage described the film as "an almost unbelievably immense masterpiece".
Free Radicals has generally received mixed reviews.
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Free Radicals was released in 1958 and has generally received mixed reviews.
Online reviewers have written 12 reviews, giving Free Radicals (1958) an average rating of 60%.
Overall, cinema-goers marginally prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 69%, compared to film critics, who gave it a slightly lower average score of 60%.
With a score of 60%, Free Radicals is roughly the same as the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1958, which stands at 60%.
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