Maya Deren
April 29, 1917 · 109 years old
Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleonora Derenkowska (Ukrainian: Елеоно́ра Деренко́вська), was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theo…
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Meshes of the Afternoon
1943 · 14m · Movie
A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-s...
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Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946 · 15m · Movie
An experiment with editing techniques that distort space and time in order to further contextualize an image.
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Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993 · 52m · Movie
A documentary film about Haitian vodou.
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