- published: 04 Nov 2012
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Len Lye, born Leonard Charles Huia Lye (5 July 1901 - 15 May 1980), was a Christchurch, New Zealand-born artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. His films are held in archives such as the New Zealand Film Archive, British Film Institute, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Pacific Film Archive at University of California, Berkeley. Lye's sculptures are found in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Berkeley Art Museum. Although he became a naturalized citizen of the United States in 1950, much of his work went to New Zealand after his death, where it is housed at the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery in New Plymouth.
As a student, Lye became convinced that motion could be part of the language of art, leading him to early (and now lost) experiments with kinetic sculpture, as well as a desire to make film. Lye was also one of the first Pākehā artists to appreciate the art of Māori, Australian Aboriginal, Pacific Island and African cultures, and this had great influence on his work. In the early 1920s Lye travelled widely in the South Pacific. He spent extended periods in Australia and Samoa, where he was expelled by the New Zealand colonial administration for living within an indigenous community.
Actors: Michael Hurst (actor), Shirley Horrocks (producer), Nick Braxton (editor), Roger Horrocks (writer), Roger Horrocks (director), Matthew Barnes (actor), Eve De Castro-Robinson (composer),
Genres: Documentary, Drama, Short,Su-su-sugar in the marmalade.....
(Gotta make your body move. It's party time.)
Oh, eh, ah, e, oh
Sugar in the marmalade.....
(Yo, rock it to the rhythm while I busta run.)
Oh, eh, ah, e, oh
Yo.....what a perfect day.
I'm the one with the smiling face
getting tanned in Miami Bay,
jamming with amazing grace.
* Yo...you're the perfect one.
Come and share all my sunny days,
Let's hop into my caravan,
and our journey never ends.
You make me high.
I'm getting high.
# Su-su-sugar in the marmalade.....
(Gotta make your body move. It's party time).
Sugar in the Marmalade
(Yo, rock it to the rhythm while I busta run.)
Oh, eh, ah, e, oh
Sugar in the marmalade..
We can reach to our ecstasy tonight,
keep the feeling burning hot tonight.
Can you do it babe ?
Can you do it babe ?
Can you do it babe ?
Rap
Repeat * #
violin playing by Eugene Park
Rap
(yeah, Eugene Park, came to rock the spot.
Everybody don't stop. Go Eugene...go, go...go Eugene go.
That's right. Eugene Park, here to rock the spot.
Everybody don't stop, go Eugene go..go..say hooo)
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