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
Franz Schubert's Last Three Piano Sonatas
Documentary, Music
0.0
The Scape of the Monkey Woman
Adventure, Music
5.0
The Snowy Day
Animation, Family
0.0
The Legend of Sarila
Family, Animation, Adventure
4.4
El Caminante
Animation
5.0
Angels and Demons
Animation, Fantasy
0.0
Ballface.
Animation, Horror
0.0
Poplar Tree
Animation
7.5
Sprite Fright
Animation, Horror, Comedy
7.0
Macabre
Horror, Mystery, Animation
5.1
The Naive Man From Lolliland
Comedy, Animation
6.6
So This Is Harris!
Music, Comedy
4.7
Maniac Landscapes
Horror, Animation, Mystery
0.0
Siklus
Music, Fantasy
0.0
The Twilight Hour
Drama, Animation
0.0
Toy Tumor
Animation, Horror, Comedy
0.0
Bad Exorcist: Christmas Eve
Animation, Comedy
0.0
Proof of Us
Animation
5.0
Zepo
Thriller, Horror, Animation
7.0
The Tenant's Racket
Animation
5.7