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TARENTELLA
MARY ELLEN BUTE
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4m 25s
By 1940, Mary Ellen Bute's abstractions were shown at select theaters nationwide. Utilizing initial illustrations created by Norman McLaren for her earlier SPOOK SPORT, this "seeing-sound" film demonstrates her ability to visualize music in a style sympathetic to modernist painting. Squiggling lines, expanding and contracting circles and dynamic color-fields frame Bute as a "designer of kinetic abstractions."