Mary Ellen Bute

A young boy has developed an ability to see through walls, much to the consternation of his stuffy Victorian parents.

01 de jan. de 1956

Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials (vi...

31 de dez. de 1940

It's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun. As midnight strikes, 12 spooks ap...

01 de jan. de 1940

Based on the stage play Passages from Finnegans Wake, itself based on random passages from Finnegans Wake, Mary Ellen Bute's adaptation is a comica...

07 de abr. de 1967

Parabola is a celebration of film’s ability to create new ways of seeing the forms around us. Creating juxtapositions between light/shadow, stasis/...

05 de set. de 1937

Screen titles introduce the film as a modern artist's impressions of what goes on in the mind while listening to music. Grieg's "Peer Gynt Suite" a...

05 de mar. de 1934

A (barely) two minute short is that it was made specially for a Paramount newsreel segment on Bute and Nemeth making films in their teensy New York...

17 de jun. de 1936

To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is ...

05 de set. de 1937

Synchromy No. 2, synchronized to the "Evening Star" aria from Wagner's Tannhäuser, uses a statue of Venus to represent the star.

09 de abr. de 1935

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s. Set ...

01 de jul. de 1952

Short film by Mary Ellen Bute

01 de jan. de 1947

"Bute’s most compact abstract film energizes a jazzy ad jingle to promote RCA’s new stereo recordings! The barrage of visuals features a panoply of...

01 de jan. de 1956

A short film from Mary Ellen Bute, showcasing her trademark animations set to music.

21 de abr. de 1958