Title from container. Maya Deren. Full screen (1.33:1). Special features: Audio commentaries; never-released audio outtakes from the original soundtrack recording sessions with Teiji Ito; booklet essays; Invocation: Maya Deren (1987).
Contents:
Meshes of the afternoon (1943) -- At land (1944) -- A study in choreography for camera (1945) -- The private life of a cat (1948) -- Ritual in transfirgured time (1946) -- Meditation on violence (1948) -- The very eye of night (1958) -- Divine horseman (1947-1954, 1977).
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.
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