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Meditation on Violence (1948 Film, Video)

Director

Maya Deren

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

In this film Maya Deren sought to represent the philosophical attitudes behind several closely-related forms of martial art. The film consists entirely of sequences of a Chinese boxer demonstrating the...

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Study in Choreography for the Camera, A (1945 Film, Video)

aka: Choreography for the Camera

Director

Maya Deren

Subject

Dance; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Maya Deren combines film and dance, collaborating with dancer Talley Beatty to make a ‘film-dance’.

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Very Eye of Night, The (1959 Film)

Director

Maya Deren

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Maya Deren explains her film as ‘a ballet of night, entirely in the negative, in which the dancers are constellations which orbit and revolve in the night sky’.

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Meshes of the Afternoon (1943 Film, Video)

Director

Maya Deren

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Maya Deren re-interprets and elaborates an apparently simple, casual incident into a critical emotional experience, creating an interior world of resonance, of meshes and rhythms, a dream time where beauty...

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Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946 Film, Video)

Director

Maya Deren

Subject

Dance; Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

Maya Deren weaves together her interest in dance with the exploration of myth and symbol. Dance becomes a metaphor for courtship and sexual union from which ‘the widow’ flees at the end of the film,...

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Maya Deren: Experimental Films

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 47 minutes), £23.00 (Institutional use £60.00)

MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON 1943 music by Teiji Ito, 1959, b/w, 15’ With Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. Grand Prix International, avant-garde section, Cannes 1947. AT LAND 1944 silent, b/w, 16’ With Deren,...

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At Land (1944 Video)

Director

Maya Deren

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

A trance-like film tracing the conflict between a woman and her environment. At the start of the film the woman (played by Maya Deren) is washed up on a beach and then goes on an anxious odyssey through a...

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Body of Work (2011)

Director

Jo Ann Kaplan

Producer

Fiz Oliver

Subject

Film studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 0 PAL, 119 minutes), £21.00

This collection of films by Jo Ann Kaplan comprises a selection of her most personal work, as well as her biographical film about Maya Deren. MAYA DEREN: INVOCATION is narrated by Helen Mirren, with original...

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Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1947 Video)

aka: Maya Deren: Divine Horsemen

Subject

Anthropology; Religious studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 47 minutes), £24.00

The material was recorded by Maya Deren when she went to Haiti on four trips to make a film of Haitian dance. Having become increasingly involved with the voodoo experience she abandoned her original...

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Maya Deren: Dance Films (1997)

Subject

Dance; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 47 minutes), £23.00 (individual); £60.00 (institutional)

Selections from the series of dance films made by the American avant-garde film-maker Maya Deren in the 1940s and 1950s. It contains Talley Beatty’s A Study in Choreography for the Camera, Frank...

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