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Looks at the the Aztecs, whose architectural legacy is found in modern Mexico City, and the Mayans, who built some of the worlds great temples, including Chichen Itza and Copan. Uses location footage,...
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...
Five 25-minute programmes, each on an individual author, looking at one or more substantial texts and exploring the different ways in such works are written. Authors are Sylvia Plath (autobiography in...
Looks at the complex interweaving of economics and religion known as the ‘cargo’ system, which is found among the Highland Maya of Mexico and Guatemala.
This programme, with footage and commentary by Hubert L Smith, whose field research spanned many years in the Maya community, follows a traditional extended family group as its members companionably share...
The Mayan Indians of the village of San Antonio Palopó on the shores of Lake Atitlán in Guatemala live in much the same way as their 16th-century Mayan ancestors. Yet, with economic development, things are...
Maya Angelou, author of I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings, All God’s Children Need Traveling Shoes, and The Heart of a Woman, tells how poetry cured her muteness, how she writes in the autobiographical and...
Maya Angelou is interviewed at the ICA and talks about writing through the black experience; the human spirit in adversity; prose and poetry readings
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’.
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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