Editor's Note
A newly re-mastered, top quality reproduction of Maya Deren's six chamber films: "Meshes of the Afternoon," "At Land," "A Study in Choreography for Camera," "Ritual in Transfigured Time," "Meditation on Violence," and "The Very Eye of Night." Silent films.
Plot Summary
Experimental filmmaker Maya Deren created some of the most|hypnotic and beautiful avant-garde films ever made. Several of these groundbreaking shorts reveal her fascination with movement and ritual: "A Study in Choreography for the Camera" features dancer Talley Beatty leaping through vast expanses of space, thanks to the magic of editing. Both "At Land" and "Ritual in Transfigured Time" use choreographic techniques to explore the everyday rituals we go through in our encounters with other human beings. "Meditation on Violence" focuses on the elegant motions of Chinese boxing, while "The Very Eye of Night" transforms a stage ballet by Antony Tudor into pure cinematic fantasy.| But Deren's true masterpiece is "Meshes of The Afternoon," a narratively complex, psychological study of a woman -- played by the director herself.
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