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
Dune
Animation, Mystery, Thriller
7.4
The Painter
Action, Thriller
6.2
The Hawk
Action, Adventure, Comedy
7.9
Maine-Ocean Express
Comedy
5.8
The Accursed
Horror
6.5
Hannibal Brooks
Comedy, War
6.4
Divers at Work on the Wreck of the "Maine"
Documentary
5.8
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba -To the Hashira Training-
Action, Animation, Fantasy, Thriller
6.5
Jennifer Lopez: The Reel Me
Music, Documentary
8.8
House of Ga'a
Action, History
5.5
A
5.8
Adrenaline
Action
6.0
All Fun and Games
Horror, Thriller
5.6
How I Unleashed World War II, Part III: Among Friends
Comedy, Adventure, War
7.6
John
Comedy
6.7
Cyrano
Drama, Romance
6.4
Murder Party
Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
5.2
Sad?
Documentary
5.9
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On, Two
Comedy, Animation
6.9
From Our Family to Yours
Animation, Drama
6.9
Castaway
Animation
0.0
Living with Severe Anxiety
Animation
0.0
À la mode
Animation, Comedy
9.0
Migrants
Adventure, Animation, Drama
8.0
How Dave and Emma Got Pregnant
Animation
5.0
I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died
Animation
0.0
Holly Gets Even
Animation
0.0
Break!
Animation, Comedy
6.0
Entr'Acte
Animation
0.0
Chateau/Poyet
Animation
0.0
Voices of a Distant Star
Animation, Science Fiction, Romance
6.5
Cencoroll
Animation, Science Fiction
6.2
Gotas
Animation
0.0
Moomins and the Winter Wonderland
Animation, Family, Adventure, Comedy
5.1
The Lorax
Animation, Family, TV Movie
7.1
The Boot
Animation, Drama
0.0
Soil is Alive
Animation
0.0
Mediocre
Documentary, Music
0.0