Where to watch Mary Ellen Bute in the UK
Find every Mary Ellen Bute film and TV show streaming, free, or available to rent in the UK. Updated daily — verified 5 May 2026.
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 by the likes of Bach, Saint-Saens or Shostakovich, and filled with colorful forms, elegant design and sprightly, dance-like-rhythms, Bute's filmmaking is at once formally rigorous and energetically high-spirited, like a marriage of high modernism and Merrie Melodies. In the late 1940s, Lewis Jacobs observed that Bute's films were "composed upon mathematical formulae depicting in ever-changing light…
Mary Ellen Bute films streaming in the UK
Most-watched films featuring Mary Ellen Bute, available across UK streaming, rent and buy.
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- Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake (1967) Director
- The Boy Who Saw Through (1956) Producer
- Rhythm in Light (1934) Director
- Tarantella (1940) Director
- Abstronic (1952) Director
- Escape (Synchronomy No. 4) (1937) Director
- Spook Sport (1940) Director
- Polka Graph (1947) Director
- Parabola (1937) Director
- Synchromy No. 2 (1935) Director
- Color Rhapsodie (1948) Director
- Mood Contrasts (1958) Director
- Dada (1936) Director
- New Sensations in Sound by RCA Victor (1956) Director
- Synchromy No. 1 (1934) Director
- Pastorale (1950) Director
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