Work
Passages from James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake
“Passages is a trove of superimpositions, flashbacks, varied angles, slow motion, intercutting, rapid motion, stop action, negative images, documentary footage, and finally sub-titles … It brings in television, the H-bomb, the twist, interplanetary rockets. Bute believed that Joyce would have accepted the modern elements in a film based on his 1939 novel, and she even quoted a line from Finnegans Wake that mentions television.” Lillian Schiff, “The Education of Mary Ellen Bute” in Film Library Quarterly 17:2 (1984). Rpt., abr. in Women and Animation: A Compendium. Ed. Jayne Pilling. London: British Film Institute, 1992.
Details
Project | The Printed Signal |
Artists | Mary Ellen Bute |
Year | 1965 |
Origin | USA |
Duration | 90 Min |