A documentary video that tells the history of the films by Maya Deren. ~ Rovi...
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1987
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In this intense drama, filmed in Tahiti, a Tahitian girl from a small fishing village fantasizes about becoming the bride of...
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Commentary, Screenwriter
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1961
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The Very Eye of Night is filmmaker Maya Deren's last completed film. It was made from 1952 to 1955 in collaboration with...
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Cinematographer, Director, Editor
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1959
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Season of Strangers is a long film made up of little films. It is a "pool film" made up from entries made by students in the...
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Supervisor/Manager
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1959
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Although Maya Deren's vast, unfinished anthropological film of Haitian ritual dancing was pulled together in 1977 into a...
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Cinematographer, Director
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1954
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Ensemble for Somnambulists was a film Maya Deren made while teaching a workshop at the Toronto Film Society. It was never...
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Director
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1951
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This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her years in Haiti (1947-1951);...
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Director
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1951
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Made at the YMHA film workshop with Jean Edrman, Medusa is a Maya Deren film that was never finished. It is shown in the...
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Cinematographer, Director
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1949
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One of the earliest non-commercial films on the subject of martial arts, Chinese master Chao-Li Chi performs Tai Chi for...
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Cinematographer, Director, Editor, Musical Arrangement
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1948
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A social event choreographed in the manner of a dance, illuminated by concepts drawn from Greek legend; one of filmmaker...
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Cinematographer, Director, Screenwriter, Actor
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1946
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A dance film in which camerawork and editing appears to make the dancer move through a variety of settings without passing...
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Cinematographer, Director, Editor
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1945
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Cinematographer, Director, Editor
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1945
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In this surrealist film, Maya Deren's character rolls up on the beach, backwards. She crawls through a party unnoticed, but...
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Director, Screenwriter, Actor
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1944
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One of the most important and influential experimental films of the 20th century, Maya Deren's 18-minute feminist classic...
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Director, The Woman
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1943
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The Witch's Cradle is an unfinished Maya Deren film made in the Guggenheim Gallery during a surrealist "Art of this Century"...
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Cinematographer, Director
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1942
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