Maya Deren
Experimental Films
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Original format 16mm
Year 1943-1946
Language(s) English
Artist(s) Maya Deren
Running time 47 min
Films
MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (1943) 15'
AT LAND (1944) 16'
RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME (1945-1946) 16'
Description
"My aim is to make an experimental film (within the physical limits imposed by material conditions) in which I will attempt to develop a form of cinematic art that finds its origin in the potentialities of the camera itself, freed from the influence of other artistic languages such as literature, theater, and the visual arts."
— Maya Deren
"Maya Deren's cinema liberates us from the studio: it presents to our eyes physical facts that contain a deep psychological meaning; it marks in our hearts and upon our hearts a time that alternates, continues, turns, beats, or takes flight.... We escape the stupidity of simulation. We are in the reality of the cinematic fact, which Maya Deren captures by using the lens as a prodigious tool of discovery."
— Le Corbusier
"She is the mother of us all."
— Stan Brakhage