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  1. Maya Deren (1948 Film, Video)

    Director
    Maya Deren
    Subject
    Media studies
    Distribution
    Film (16mm)

    A compilation of the short, experimental films of Maya Deren. Includes MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (1943), AT LAND (1944), A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR CAMERA (1945), RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME (1946) and...

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  2. Meshes of the Afternoon

    Date
    2 Apr 2013, 11:42
    Author
    Sergio Angelini
    Post Type
    BUFVC Review

    Meshes of the Afternoon by John David Rhodes (BFI Film Classics, 2011). (British Film Institute / Palgrave MacMillan, 2011). 128 pages. ISBN: 978-1844573776 (paperback). Price: £9.99 About the reviewer:...

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  3. 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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  4. 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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  5. 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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  6. 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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  7. 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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  8. 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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  9. 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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  10. 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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