The protagonist of this film is a marionette monkey built by the film-maker himself. Lye presented this film as a prototype in the hope of finding partners for a series of puppet films, but without success.
Len Lye
United Kingdom
If you have exactly two minutes to spare and love dusty, hand-made relics, this is absolutely worth your time. 🐵 But if you need things like "plots" or "characters who don't look like they're haunting your closet," you will probably hate it.This is basically a 1933 pitch tape that failed to get funded. Len Lye built a...
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Len Lye
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"If you have exactly two minutes to spare and love dusty, hand-made relics, this is absolutely worth your time. 🐵 But if you need things like "plots" or "characters who don't look like they're haunting your closet," you will probably hate it.This is basically a 1933 pitch tape that failed to get funded. Len Lye built a little marionette monkey, wiggled it in front of a camera, and hoped someone would write him a check.Nobody did. Which is kind of sad, but watching this, you can sort of see why t..."
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