Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth – Tarantella (1940)
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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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Container: Matroska
Runtime: 4 min 25 s
Size: 110 MiB
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