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Seeing Sound: The Films of Mary Ellen Bute
Northwest Film Forum
Seattle, WA
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Seeing Sound: The Films of Mary Ellen Bute
(Mary Ellen Bute, USA, 1934-52, 16mm, 70 min)

Introduced by Cindy Keefer, Director of the Center For Visual Music.
American filmmaker Mary Ellen Bute (1906-1983) is an important and often overlooked pioneer of visual music and electronic art. Beginning in the 1930s, Bute produced short films that translated music (often classical music including Bach and Shostakovich) into choreographed shapes, ever-changing lights and shadows, brilliant colorful forms, and elegant design. Critic and curator Ed Halter has called her films a marriage of high modernism and Merrie Melodies. Although little-known today, many of her films reached wide audiences at the time through screenings before feature films at Radio City Music Hall and movie theaters around the country. This retrospective program features all of Butes pioneering abstract animations, from her first film, Rhythm in Light (1934) to later works such as Mood Contrasts (1956), an early use of electronic oscilloscope patterns. The program will be preceded by a short, work-in-progress documentary on Bute, made by Cecile Starr with Kit Basquin and Larry Mollot.

Program presented in association with the Center for Visual Music,in association with Cecile Starr and the Women's Independent Film Exchange.

Location

Northwest Film Forum
1515 12th Avenue
Seattle, WA 98122
United States
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Film

Kid Friendly: No
Dog Friendly: No
Non-Smoking: No
Wheelchair Accessible: No

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Owner: Ilana Holmes
On BPT Since: Jan 01, 2000
 
Brady Rainey
www.nwfilmforum.org


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