Experimental1921-1930AnimationLen LyeUnited Kingdom

Len Lye – Tusalava (1929)

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This remarkable animation film was first screened by the London Film Society in 1929. Jack Ellitt’s original piano music for Tusalava has unfortunately been lost. The film imagines the beginnings of life on earth. Single-cell creatures evolve into more complex forms of life. Evolution leads to conflict, and two species fight for supremacy. The title is a Samoan word which suggests that things go full circle. In this film Lye based his style of animation partly on the ancient Aboriginal art of Australia. Tusalava is unique as a film example of what art critics describe as “modernist primitivism”. In contrast to the Cubist painters (who were influenced by African art), Lye drew upon traditions of indigenous art from his own region of the world (New Zealand, Australia and Samoa).

Tusalava.1929.WEB.720p.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	10 min 0 s
Size: 	213 MiB
Video
Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	1280x720 
Aspect ratio:  	16:9
Frame rate: 	25.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 720 kb/s
BPP: 	0.118
Audio
#1:  	2.0ch AAC LC @ 253 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/51E1B2F08D1FA20/Tusalava.1929.WEB.720p.mkv

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