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A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s to the 1950s. Set to classical music by the likes of Bach, Saint-Saens or Shostakovich, and filled with colorful forms, elegant design and sprightly, dance-like-rhythms, Bute's filmmaking is at once formally rigorous and energetically high-spirited, like a marriage of high modernism and Merrie Melodies. In the late 1940s, Lewis Jacobs observed that Bute's films were "composed upon mathematical formulae depicting in ever-changing lights and shadows, growing lines and forms, deepening colors and tones, the tumbling, racing impressions evoked by the musical accompaniment." Bute herself wrote that she sought to "bring to the eyes a combination of visual forms unfolding along with the thematic development and rhythmic cadences of music." (Ed Halter) Known for her pioneering early abstract films (some of which were screened regularly at Radio City Music Hall, New York in the 1930s), Bute made a series of Visual Music films which she called "Seeing Sound."
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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1906-11-21
- event Death Date 1983-10-17
- school Known for: Directing
- star Popularity: 1.3
- info Birth Place Houston, Texas
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New Sensations in Sound by RCA Victor
1956-01-01
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Tarantella
1940-12-31
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Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
1967-04-07
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Dada
1936-06-17
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Synchromy No. 2
1935-04-09
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Rhythm in Light
1934-03-05
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Spook Sport
1940-01-01
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Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)
1937-09-05
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Parabola
1937-09-05
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Color Rhapsodie
1948-01-01
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Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
1967-04-07
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Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
1967-04-07
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The Boy Who Saw Through
1956-01-01
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Abstronic
1952-07-01
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Escape (Synchronomy No. 4)
1937-09-05
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Polka Graph
1947-01-01
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Pastorale
1950-01-01
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Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
1967-04-07
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Mood Contrasts
1958-04-21
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Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake
1967-04-07
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Synchromy No. 1
1934-01-01