This video was made for Ed Kuepper’s Music for Len Lye, a project initiated by David Pestorius. Pangaea was a response to a piece of music by Ed Kuepper which was itself a response to Len Lye’s 1929 experimental film, Tusalava. At its original screenings, Tusalava had been accompanied by live music but the score for that music (Lye’s original music to Tusalava) has long been lost. Kuepper composed a new music track to accompany Lye’s film and we then made an image track to accompany this piece of music in the spirit of the original Tusalava. There are several points in our video that reference the original Tusalava. Another element running through Pangaea is the use of old nautical charts, one of which features Manus Island. By 2004, the year in which Pangaea was made, ‘Pacific solutions’ were in the air and Manus Island was one of them.
Neon Parc Ed Kuepper