Ted Nemeth Trailers
Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake TrailerTime Piece TrailerNew Sensations in Sound by RCA Victor Trailer
Most Popular Ted Nemeth Trailers
Total trailers found: 13
The Boy Who Saw Through Trailer (1956)
01 January 1956
A young boy has developed an ability to see through walls, much to the consternation of his stuffy Victorian parents.
Tarantella Trailer (1940)
31 December 1940
Here the artist creates a world of color, form, movement and sound in which the elements are in a state of controllable flux, the two materials (visual and aural) are subject to any conceivable interrelation and modification.
Escape (Synchronomy No. 4) Trailer (1937)
05 September 1937
To the toccata portion of Bach's "Toccata and fugue in D minor," we watch a play of sorts. Blue smoke forms a background; a grid of black lines is the foreground.
Time Piece Trailer (1965)
07 May 1965
Dislocation in time, time signatures, time as a philosophical concept, and slavery to time are some of the themes touched upon in this 9-minute experimental film, which was written, directed, and produced by Jim Henson.
Rhythm in Light Trailer (1934)
05 March 1934
Screen titles introduce the film as a modern artist's impressions of what goes on in the mind while listening to music.
Dada Trailer (1936)
17 June 1936
A (barely) two minute short is that it was made specially for a Paramount newsreel segment on Bute and Nemeth making films in their teensy New York apartment.
New Sensations in Sound by RCA Victor Trailer (1956)
01 January 1956
"Bute’s most compact abstract film energizes a jazzy ad jingle to promote RCA’s new stereo recordings! The barrage of visuals features a panoply of animated techniques among which eloquent oscilloscope patterns dance in complex synchronization to the music.
Spook Sport Trailer (1940)
01 January 1940
It's midnight in a graveyard. The principal characters are spooks, ghosts, bats, bells, and, at the end, the sun.
Synchromy No. 2 Trailer (1935)
09 April 1935
Synchromy No. 2, synchronized to the "Evening Star" aria from Wagner's Tannhäuser, uses a statue of Venus to represent the star.
Passages from James Joyce's Finnegans Wake Trailer (1967)
07 April 1967
Based on the stage play Passages from Finnegans Wake, itself based on random passages from Finnegans Wake, Mary Ellen Bute's adaptation is a comical, avant-garde kaleidoscope about a man named Finnegan who dreams about his wake and then wakes up from his dream.
Abstronic Trailer (1952)
01 July 1952
A pioneer of visual music and electronic art, Mary Ellen Bute produced over a dozen short abstract animations between the 1930s and the 1950s.
Parabola Trailer (1937)
05 September 1937
Parabola is a celebration of film’s ability to create new ways of seeing the forms around us. Creating juxtapositions between light/shadow, stasis/motion, and form/music, this black-and-white short invites us to see the parabolic curve, or “nature’s poetry,” as both invigorating and beguiling.
