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“This new medium of expression is the Absolute Film. 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 (visual and aural) being subject to any conceivable interrelation and modification.” – Mary Ellen Bute

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“By 1940, Mary Ellen Bute’s abstractions were shown at select theaters nationwide. Her ‘seeing-sound’ film, co-animated with Norman McLaren, demonstrates an ability to visualize music in a tradition sympathetic to modernist painting. Squiggling lines, expanding and contracting circles, and dynamic color fields frame Bute as a ‘designer of kinetic abstractions.’” – Bruce Posner

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“Color freed Bute’s talent – where before she had been constrained by a quasi-scientific conception of the parallels between musical and visual dynamics. In TARANTELLA, she takes a more intuitive approach linked closer to Kandinsky, making it among Bute’s most avant-garde productions. The animation used drawings illuminated in various wondrous ways.” – R. Bruce Elder

Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth - 1940 - Tarantella [576p].mkv

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“While German absolute filmmakers often drew on J. S. Bach for their understanding of form, Bute derived hers from mathematician Joseph Schillinger, as the SYNCHROMY series show. The visuals are reflections and refractions of light from glass colanders. The music is Wagner’s O’Evening Star – a Venus statue represents the star.” – R. Bruce Elder

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Screen titles introduce the film as an attempt to see sound. Reinald Werrenrath sings Wagner’s “O Evening Song,” as the artist creates moods through the eye. The abstract forms are generated by light playing on paper clips, jars, rings, and paper cut outs that are then rendered in multiple images. Shapes like stairways appear as the light exposes first the bottom then more; then the light gradually leaves. A statue of a woman appears. Shapes materialize then disappear. Reflection, refraction, dissolves, and superimposition combine with kaleidoscope effects. A lily appears as the song ends.

Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth - 1936 - Synchromy No. 2.mkv

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Collaboration with Melville Webber and Ted Nemeth. Premiered at Radio City Music Hall, 1935. In the RHYTHM IN LIGHT, the artist uses visual materials as the musician uses sound. Mass and line an brilliant arabesques from the inexhaustible imagination of the artist perform a dance to the strains of Edvard Grieg’s music. The visual and aural materials are related both structurally and rhythmically – a mathematical system being used to combine the two means of expression. (Promotional flyer, Ted Nemeth Studios)

Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Melville Webber - 1935 - Rhythm in Light.mkv

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“One of the livelist of Mary Ellen Bute’s abstract films, DADA was intended to be part of a Universal Newsreel segment, showing Bute and her partner Ted Nemeth at work in their tiny New York studio. No copies of the newsreel itself are known to exist at this time.” – Cecile Starr

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To the rhythm of music that sounds a bit like a Busby Berkeley tune, lines and circles appear against a black background. Then triangles, in groups. Black and white squares move in tandem. Sparkling forms turn in kaleidoscopic patterns. Then cubes appear, white against the background, bouncing; a ying and yang rotate a few times before the film ends with an quick burst of scattering light.

Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth - 1936 - Dada.mkv

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“Mary Ellen Bute’s first color film tells a story in abstraction of an orange/red triangle imprisoned behind a grid of vertical and horizontal lines under a sky-blue expanse, perhaps representing freedom. J.S. Bach’s Toccata and Fuge in D Minor adds dramatic tension to the visual variables in motion.” – Cecile Starr

Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth - 1937 - Escape [576p].mkv

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A half-forgotten, half-legendary pioneer in American abstract and animated filmmaking, Mary Ellen Bute, late in her career as an artist, created this adaptation of James Joyce, her only feature. In the transformation from Joyce’s polyglot prose to the necessarily concrete imagery of actors and sets, Passages discovers a truly oneiric film style, a weirdly post-New Wave rediscovery of Surrealism, and in her panoply of allusion – 1950s dance crazes, atomic weaponry, ICBMs, and television all make appearances – she finds a cinematic approximation of the novel’s nearly impenetrable vertically compressed structure.

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This new medium of expression is the Absolute Film. 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 (visual and aural) being subject to any conceivable interrelation and modification. – Mary Ellen Bute

http://nitroflare.com/view/A735B70C90F838B/Tarentella.1940.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DD%2B2.0.x264-Cinefeel.mkv

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