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Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleanora Derenkowskaia (Russian: Элеоно́ра Деренко́вская), 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 theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer.
The function of film, Deren believed, like most art forms, was to create an experience; each one of her films would evoke new conclusions, lending her focus to be dynamic and always-evolving. She combined her interests in dance, Haitian Vodou and subjective psychology in a series of surreal, perceptual, black and white short films. Using editing, multiple exposures, jump cutting, superimposition, slow-motion and other camera techniques to her fullest advantage, Deren creates continued motion through discontinued space, while abandoning the established notions of physical space and time, with the ability to turn her vision into a stream of consciousness.
Actors: Barbara Hammer (director), Barbara Hammer (editor), Barbara Hammer (writer), Barbara Hammer (producer), Teiji Ito (composer), Tavia Ito (composer), Bekka Lindstrom (actor),
Plot: Maya Deren's Sink, a 30 minute experimental film, is an evocative tribute to the mother of avantgarde American film. The film calls forth the spirit of one who was larger than life as recounted by those who knew her. Teiji Ito's family, Carolee Schneemann and Judith Malvina, float through the homes recalling in tiny bits and pieces words of Deren's architectural and personal interior space. Clips from Maya Deren's films are projected back into the spaces where they were originally filmed appearing on the floorboard, furniture, and in the bowl of her former sink. Fluid light projections of intimate space provide an elusive agency for a filmmaker most of us will never know as film with its imaginary nature evokes a former time and space.
Genres: Biography, Documentary, History, Short,Actors: Barry Ratcliffe (actor), Ana Lopes (actress), Josiah D. Lee (actor), Rupert Hitzig (actor), Eric Michael Kochmer (actor), Leslie Garza (actress), Eric Michael Kochmer (producer), Oliver Rayon (actor), Stephanie Sanditz (producer), Stephanie Sanditz (actress), David Anthony Hernandez (actor), Andrew J. West (actor), Owen Land (director), Owen Land (writer), Owen Land (producer),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Actors: Barry Ratcliffe (actor), Ana Lopes (actress), Josiah D. Lee (actor), Rupert Hitzig (actor), Eric Michael Kochmer (actor), Leslie Garza (actress), Eric Michael Kochmer (producer), Oliver Rayon (actor), Stephanie Sanditz (producer), Stephanie Sanditz (actress), David Anthony Hernandez (actor), Andrew J. West (actor), Owen Land (director), Owen Land (writer), Owen Land (producer),
Genres: Biography, Drama,Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleanora Derenkowskaia (Russian: Элеоно́ра Деренко́вская), 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 theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer. The function of film, Deren believed, like most art forms, was to create an experience; each one of her films would evoke new conclusions, lending her focus to be dynamic and always-evolving. She combined her interests in dance, voodoo and subjective psychology in a series of surreal, perceptual, black and white short films. Using editing, multiple exposures, jump cutting, superimposition, slow-motion and other camera techniques to her fullest advanta...
Music: Akira Yamaoka Video: Maya Deren ''Meshes Of The Afternoon'' Montage: CutCollage
An exercise in writing film music. The music is based on the transfiguration of space which is quite common in Maya Derens films. Soundtrack and score can be downloaded for free at http://tomasfriberg.se
One of the main references of David Lynch. Maya Deren (1917 - 1961) was a filmmaker, film theoretical , choreographer , dancer , poet, writer and photographer. Uma das principais referencias de David Lynch, entre outros. Maya Deren (1917 - 1961) foi cineasta, teórica cinematográfica, coreógrafa, dançarina, poeta, escritora e fotógrafa.
Probably the most artistic cat video you will ever watch. Alexander Hammid's intimate study of a female cat and the birth and maturation of her five kittens. The Atlantic even did a piece on it: http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2013/04/this-is-the-best-experimental-film-about-cats-ever-made/275231/ Produced by: Alexander Hammid (Alexandr Hackenschmied) & Maya Deren "Great documentary following the stages of the life of a cat. I recommend this download for anyone interested in cats or fine cinematography. It is a fine companion the book on cats by cultural anthropologist/sociobioligist Desmond Morris (The Naked Ape), "Catwatching and Cat Lore," from 1986. What Hammid beautifully portrays on film, Morris explains in print. Great short film, 5 stars. Thank you Internet Archive. ...
For more information please visit http://www.moma.org/modernwomen Images courtesy of Barbara Hammer and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Clips courtesy of the Estate of Maya Deren, Anthology Film Archives, and Barbara Hammer (www.barbarahammer.com) Created by Plowshares Media www.PlowSharesMedia.com © 2010 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
In her fourth complete film, Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946), Maya Deren uses movement and dance together with movement suggested by the ‘cinematic stage’ that is also mobile and volatile itself, in order to create a ritualistic procedure or a metamorphosis. As she writes in one of her program notes, “A ritual is an action that it seeks the realization of its purpose through the exercise of form, […] it’s an inversion towards life, the passage from sterile winter into fertile spring; mortality into immortality; the child-son into the man-father; or, as in this film, the widow into the bride”. [1] The two professional dancers, Franck Westbrook and Rita Christiani are complemented by a mass of people moving in circles around them and also two more main characters Maya Deren and Anais Nin....
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For more information please visit http://www.moma.org/modernwomen Images courtesy of Barbara Hammer and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Clips courtesy of the Estate of Maya Deren, Anthology Film Archives, and Barbara Hammer (www.barbarahammer.com) Created by Plowshares Media www.PlowSharesMedia.com © 2010 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
here is another video.
http://www.egs.edu/, Barbara Hammer, experimental filmmaker, lesbian artist and feminist talking about Maya Deren. In this lecture she reads an excerpt from her book Hammer! in which she recounts her experience in discovering the cinema of Maya Deren, and talks about Deren's impact on her own work, gives some biographical data about Maya Deren as well as some background information on the making of Maya Deren's "Meshes in the Afternoon", which she screens back to back with her new film "Maya Deren's Sink". She then goes on to talk about her film "Generations", which she worked on with Gina Carducci, and opens up the floor for discussion. Public open lecture for the students and faculty of the European Graduate School EGS Media and Communication Studies department program Saas-Fee Switzer...
Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleanora Derenkowskaia (Russian: Элеоно́ра Деренко́вская), 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 theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer. The function of film, Deren believed, like most art forms, was to create an experience; each one of her films would evoke new conclusions, lending her focus to be dynamic and always-evolving. She combined her interests in dance, voodoo and subjective psychology in a series of surreal, perceptual, black and white short films. Using editing, multiple exposures, jump cutting, superimposition, slow-motion and other camera techniques to her fullest advanta...
One of the main references of David Lynch. Maya Deren (1917 - 1961) was a filmmaker, film theoretical , choreographer , dancer , poet, writer and photographer. Uma das principais referencias de David Lynch, entre outros. Maya Deren (1917 - 1961) foi cineasta, teórica cinematográfica, coreógrafa, dançarina, poeta, escritora e fotógrafa.
"30 Years - 30 Interviews" Birthday Greetings from Barbara Hammer, USA In this interview, TEDDY AWARD winner Barbara Hammer talks about her movies "A Horse Is Not A Metaphor" and "Maya Deren's Sink". As one of the most significant queer film artists, she also looks back at queer film history, talks about how personal experiences influenced her films, the importance of experimental techniques in queer film making, and what 'queering the arts' means to her. Most importantly though she spreads a spirit of hope, joy and queer power! About the movies A HORSE IS NOT A METAPHOR: Filmmaker Barbara Hammer fights ovarian cancer with visions of horseback riding and river swimming in her new experimental film, A Horse Is Not A Metaphor. As a “cancer thriver” rather than “survivor,” Barbara Hammer ri...
Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleanora Derenkowskaia (Russian: Элеоно́ра Деренко́вская), 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 theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer. The function of film, Deren believed, like most art forms, was to create an experience; each one of her films would evoke new conclusions, lending her focus to be dynamic and always-evolving. She combined her interests in dance, voodoo and subjective psychology in a series of surreal, perceptual, black and white short films. Using editing, multiple exposures, jump cutting, superimposition, slow-motion and other camera techniques to her fullest advanta...
Music: Akira Yamaoka Video: Maya Deren ''Meshes Of The Afternoon'' Montage: CutCollage
An exercise in writing film music. The music is based on the transfiguration of space which is quite common in Maya Derens films. Soundtrack and score can be downloaded for free at http://tomasfriberg.se
One of the main references of David Lynch. Maya Deren (1917 - 1961) was a filmmaker, film theoretical , choreographer , dancer , poet, writer and photographer. Uma das principais referencias de David Lynch, entre outros. Maya Deren (1917 - 1961) foi cineasta, teórica cinematográfica, coreógrafa, dançarina, poeta, escritora e fotógrafa.
Probably the most artistic cat video you will ever watch. Alexander Hammid's intimate study of a female cat and the birth and maturation of her five kittens. The Atlantic even did a piece on it: http://www.theatlantic.com/video/archive/2013/04/this-is-the-best-experimental-film-about-cats-ever-made/275231/ Produced by: Alexander Hammid (Alexandr Hackenschmied) & Maya Deren "Great documentary following the stages of the life of a cat. I recommend this download for anyone interested in cats or fine cinematography. It is a fine companion the book on cats by cultural anthropologist/sociobioligist Desmond Morris (The Naked Ape), "Catwatching and Cat Lore," from 1986. What Hammid beautifully portrays on film, Morris explains in print. Great short film, 5 stars. Thank you Internet Archive. ...
For more information please visit http://www.moma.org/modernwomen Images courtesy of Barbara Hammer and The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Clips courtesy of the Estate of Maya Deren, Anthology Film Archives, and Barbara Hammer (www.barbarahammer.com) Created by Plowshares Media www.PlowSharesMedia.com © 2010 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
In her fourth complete film, Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946), Maya Deren uses movement and dance together with movement suggested by the ‘cinematic stage’ that is also mobile and volatile itself, in order to create a ritualistic procedure or a metamorphosis. As she writes in one of her program notes, “A ritual is an action that it seeks the realization of its purpose through the exercise of form, […] it’s an inversion towards life, the passage from sterile winter into fertile spring; mortality into immortality; the child-son into the man-father; or, as in this film, the widow into the bride”. [1] The two professional dancers, Franck Westbrook and Rita Christiani are complemented by a mass of people moving in circles around them and also two more main characters Maya Deren and Anais Nin....
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This is inspired by meditation on Violence by Maya Deren, though it is my own work. The music is from me. Babylon Disco, from Kevin Macleod. They might not by Puddle of Infinity.
Just go to sleep
Talk is cheap
The price is steep
For the secrets we don't keep
Anchors away
I promised I'd stay
Against my every instinct
I'm in the black till the day sinks
I won't go down, down
To that dirty part of town, town
I just want to stay clean, clean
You don't know what I need, need
You don't want to know
Double six
Double six, double six
The jig is up the fight was fixed
I'm on my way, I'm in the sticks
I won't go down, down
To that dirty part of town, town
I just want to stay clean, clean
You don't know what I need, need
You don't want to know
Trust me
You can't trust me
You don't want to trust me
'Cause you can't trust me
No, no
Meet me by the river
I'm sorry Mary Jane
I thought that things could be different
What else can I say?
But I recall watching you
Walk down the aisle
And I recall the way the flower girls
Made your mother smile