Direction: Mary Ellen Bute

Direction Mary Ellen Bute · Bill Nemeth · Ted Nemeth

Plot 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 the...

Direction Mary Ellen Bute · Ted Nemeth

Direction Norman McLaren · Mary Ellen Bute · Ted Nemeth

Plot 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 appear, then two ghosts. They move...

Direction Mary Ellen Bute · Ted Nemeth

Plot “I wanted to manipulate light to produce visual compositions in time continuity much as a musician manipulates sound to produce music. It was particularly while I listened to music that...

Direction Mary Ellen Bute

Cast Page Johnson · Martin J. Kelley · Jane Reilly · Peter Haskell

Direction Mary Ellen Bute · Ted Nemeth · Melville Webber

Plot Bute used Webber’s experience with making cardboard models and with photographing in soft focus and through prisms to produce multiple refractions and reflections. In addition, she used cellophane, ping-pong balls,...

Direction Rutherford Boyd · Mary Ellen Bute · Bill Nemeth · Ted Nemeth

Plot Screen titles introduce the parabola as nature's poetry of motion: the path of every ball and bullet, of a fountain's jet and a falling star. Sculptor Rutherford Boyd's creations appear...

Direction Mary Ellen Bute · Ted Nemeth

Plot 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 shows. The visuals are...

Direction Mary Ellen Bute · Ted Nemeth

Plot 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...