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 to classical music by the likes of Bach, Saint-Saëns, and Shoshtakovich, and replete with rapidly mutating geometries, 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.”
Hallowe'en
Horror, Comedy, Animation
6.0
Star
Drama
6.3
The Secret Six
Crime, Drama
5.8
Main Inteqam Loonga
Action, Drama
8.0
Work
Drama
4.0
Cartoon Network Christmas: Yuletide Follies
Animation, Family, Comedy
9.9
Projota - AMADMOL (A Milenar Arte de Meter o Louco)
6.1
Now Forgotten Afternoons
Documentary, Drama
5.0
Christmas in Miami
Comedy
5.1
Tweety's S.O.S.
Animation
6.6
To Whom the Bell Rings (Oblivion)
Horror, Thriller, Mystery
7.0
Mystery Woman: Game Time
Mystery, Crime, Thriller, TV Movie, Drama
6.6
Chasing Ghosts
Family, Comedy, Drama
6.4
Mis XV
Horror
10.0
Reencuentro
Drama, Romance, Fantasy
0.0
Η Αδελφή Μου Θέλει Ξύλο
Comedy
6.0
Jhutha Sach
Drama
7.8
Insane In The Brain
Horror, Comedy
5.5
Goodbye Jerome!
Animation, Family, Fantasy
7.7
The Dam Keeper
Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
7.4
The Crow
Animation
0.0
Absolution, Parsin
Animation, Horror, Crime, Thriller
0.0
Ninja Fireball in Edo
Comedy, Animation
4.8
Taro's Monster Hunt
Fantasy, Horror, Comedy, Animation
5.0
The Nutty Network
Comedy, Animation
0.0
It Happened to Crusoe
Animation
0.0
Baby Kangaroo's Birthday Surprise
Animation
6.0
Attack of the 50-foot Gummi Bear
Animation
6.0
Shyness
Comedy, Animation
0.0
Chris Cree Brown: Electronic Composer
TV Movie, Documentary, Music
0.0
Diary
Animation
0.0
The March of the Missing
Animation
6.0
El mono relojero
Animation, Comedy
5.0
The Dog and the Cat
Animation
0.0
Caminandes: Gran Dillama
Animation, Comedy, Family
7.3
Caminandes: Llama Drama
Animation, Family, Comedy
6.9
Last Hijack
Documentary, Animation
5.5
Ego In
Animation, Horror
0.0