[url=http://expcinema.com/site/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=42&I... Mary Ellen Bute Retrospective[/url]

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Celebrating the 100th aniiversary of [b]Mary Ellen Bute[/b]'s birth (1906-1983), Cinematexas will screen a complete retrospective of her 14 short films next September 21st. Bute, who started her career as a painter, developed her filmic work between the 1930's and the 50's, through abstract animated shorts that tried to transform sound into pictures.

 

The shorts  that will be screened (the totality of her work including her collaborations with [b]McLaren[/b]) are:

 

"Rhythm in Light" (1934)

"Synchromy No. 2" (1935)

"Dada" (1936)

"Parabola" (1937)

"Escape" (1937)

"Spook Sport" (1939)

"Tarantella" (1940)

"Polka Graph" (1947)

"Color Rhapsody" (1948)

"Imagination" (1948)

"New Sensations in Sound" (1949)

"Pastoral" (1950)

"Abstronic" (1952)

"Mood Contrasts" (1953)