Bibliograph

The Maya Deren collection, Maya Deren

Type

Label

The Maya Deren collection, Maya Deren

Language

eng

Characteristic

videorecording

Main title

The Maya Deren collection

Medium

videorecording

Oclc number

1143850365

Responsibility statement

Maya Deren

Runtime

208

Summary

Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Her most famous and influential is Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), co-directed with Alexander Hammid, which depicts a surrealist slippage in reality as a woman's home becomes a shifting landscape of beauty and menace

Table Of Contents

Meshes of the afternoon (14 min. ; 1943) -- At land (15 min. ; 1944) -- A study in choreography for camera (4 min. ; 1945) -- The private life of a cat (22 min. ; 1946) -- Ritual in transfigured time (15 min. ; 1946) -- Meditation on violence (12 min. ; 1948) -- The very eye of night (15 min. ; 1958) -- Divine horsemen: The living gods of Haiti (15 min. ; 1947-1954, 1977)

Technique

live action

Classification