That top one looks like a fake documentary. A few pained faces trying to convincingly express relatively simple ideas. It’s good. I came across it while researching Len Lye for AAP, which also led to a new book about him called ‘Art That Moves’, published by University of Auckland press in November of last year. I read the introduction. Lye is one of New Zealand’s most important artists (despite living in England and New York for much of his life). He worked with motion: kinetic sculpture and early animation. There are a couple of his early films on Youtube, some of which supposedly doubled as advertisements. Like in ‘Trade Tattoo’: fluttering shapes and colours, the antithesis of torpidity, and then some text about the British postal service appears. It’s amazing how dominant Lye’s visuals are compared to the squeaky promotional shout out; no Fortune 500 company would grant such a jolly latitude these days. The Royal Mail funded experimental films under the guise of the ‘G.P.O. Film Unit’ from 1933 – 1940. “Kinetic art is the first new category of art since prehistory”, said Len Lye in 1964. He felt that movement played an essential role in modernist art, but was neglected and sidelined, never granted it’s rightful place in the limelight, due to financial constraints and the lack of interest from the art world. Maybe he is just a little bitter that his kinetic theme park never got built, which is understandable.