Projects




Color In Direct Animation: Len Lye & Norman McLaren

Exhibition Identity 
Campaign 
Poster 

An exhibition celebrating Len Lye and Norman McLaren, important film directors who transformed the filmstrip into a medium for drawing and painting. Compositions are drawn from saturated color palettes of Lye and McLaren’s films. Each poster reinterprets a distinct palette. When the colors are arranged together into a continuous gradient, they shift across the page like a filmstrip in motion. Optically, this creates a temporal experience of “animation”.



Len Lye Still from A Colour Box 1935, 35mm film, colour, 4 min © 2020 The Len Lye Foundation, courtesy BFI Images



Composition 2 



Norman McLaren, Still from Begone Dull Care, 1949, 35mm film, 8 min 17 sec, 460th second



Composition 3 



Len Lye Rainbow Dance 1936, 35mm film, Gasparcolor, 4 min © 2020 The Len Lye Foundation, courtesy BFI Images




© 2026 Chloe Ling. All rights reserved.
Website Design & Development:  Chloe Ling