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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
Ted Nemeth
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Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth – Tarantella (1940)
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Mary Ellen Bute, Ted Nemeth & Melville Webber – Rhythm in Light (1935)
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Collaboration with Melville Webber and Ted Nemeth. Premiered at Radio City Music Hall, 1935. In the RHYTHM IN LIGHT, the artist uses visual materials as the musician uses sound. Mass and line an brilliant arabesques from the inexhaustible imagination of the artist perform a dance to the strains of Edvard Grieg’s music. The visual and aural materials are related both structurally and rhythmically – a mathematical system being used to combine the two means of expression. (Promotional flyer, Ted Nemeth Studios)Read More » -
Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth – Dada (1936)
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“One of the livelist of Mary Ellen Bute’s abstract films, DADA was intended to be part of a Universal Newsreel segment, showing Bute and her partner Ted Nemeth at work in their tiny New York studio. No copies of the newsreel itself are known to exist at this time.” – Cecile StarrRead More » -
Mary Ellen Bute & Ted Nemeth – Escape (1937)
Mary Ellen Bute1931-1940AnimationExperimentalTed NemethUSA“Mary Ellen Bute’s first color film tells a story in abstraction of an orange/red triangle imprisoned behind a grid of vertical and horizontal lines under a sky-blue expanse, perhaps representing freedom. J.S. Bach’s Toccata and Fuge in D Minor adds dramatic tension to the visual variables in motion.” – Cecile StarrRead More »