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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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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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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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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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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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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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