De pionier van de abstracte film in Amerika, Mary Ellen, maakte in 1967 een filmische versie van Finnegans Wake van James Joyce.  Nu te bekijken op Ubu.

“In the transformation from Joyce’s polyglot prose to the necessarily concrete imagery of actors and sets, Passages discovers a truly oneiric film style, a weirdly post-New Wave rediscovery of Surrealism, and in her panoply of allusion – 1950s dance crazes, atomic weaponry, ICBMs, and television all make appearances – she finds a cinematic approximation of the novel’s nearly impenetrable vertically compressed structure.”