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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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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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Dreams That Money Can Buy (1946 Video)

Director

Hans Richter

Subject

Art; Media studies

Distribution

Sale, DVD (Region 2 PAL, 80 minutes), £19.99

Painter, film theorist and film-maker Hans Richter, one of the most influential members of the cinematic avant-garde, assembled some of the century’s liveliest artists as co-creators for this film,...

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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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Man Ray Films (1940 Video)

Director

Man Ray

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 112 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

Four films by Man Ray (Emmanuel Radnitzky), Dadaist and experimentalist well-known for his photographic work. During the 1920s he made four films that established him as a major figure of avant-garde...

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Britain in the Twenties (1936 Video)

Director

Adrian Brunel; Desmond Dickensen; Robert Fairthorne; Len Lye; Ivor Montagu; Hans Richter; Brian Salt

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Sale, Videocassette. VHS. b&w. 82 min., 2000 sale: £15.99 (inclusive)

A compilation of rare short British avant-garde films made in the 1920s, influenced by the ‘art’ cinema of the USSR and Germany. The chosen films represent the many distinct avant-garde styles of the...

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Pett and Pott (1934 Film)

Director

Alberto Cavalcanti

Producer

John Grierson

Subject

Media studies

Distribution

Film (16mm)

An experimental propaganda film made to encourage people to use the telephone. Equally it is a satire on suburban life and middle-class respectability. The film experiments with various sound techniques -...

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