Mary Ellen Bute Rhythm in Light (1934)

Duration: 5 min By Melville Webber, Mary Ellen Bute, and Theodore Nemeth, 1934, 5 minutes Music: Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Grieg Courtesy: Mary Ellen Bute, Theodore Nemeth, Anthology Film Archives Bute used Webbers experience with making cardboard models and with photographing in soft focus and through prisms to produce multiple refractions and reflections. In addition, she used cellophane, pingpong balls, sparklers, eggbreaters, and bracelets to create a work that, while pushing toward abstraction, does not completely leave the objective world behind. (R. Bruce Elder)