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Mary Ellen Bute, still from “Tarantella” (1940) (image courtesy Center for Visual Music) This Sunday, the Cinefamily and the Center for Visual Music are presenting a selection of her films in Seeing ...

Hidden inside Anthology’s tribute to Ted Nemeth and Mary Ellen Bute is this rather amazing, now restored film from Bute that attempts to translate James Joyce’s famously impermeable novel to the ...

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, ...

A program of animated and experimental films (1944-63) directed or co-directed by women, including ones by Maya Deren, Shirley Clarke, Mary Ellen Bute, and Helen Levitt. Most in 16mm or 35mm. The ...

The Visual Effects Society today announced the newest inductees into the VES Hall of Fame, including pioneering animator, producer and director Mary Ellen Bute; the first woman to ever direct a film, ...

A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute directed along with her husband Ted Nemeth over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s to the 1950s. Set to classical music ...