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Title Maya Deren : experimental films / directed by Maya Deren.

Publication Info. New York : Mystic Fire Video, 2002.

Copies

Location Call No. Status
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult DVD  DVD M    Missing
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Media Room  DVD MAYA    Check Shelf
Edition Authorized edition.
Description 1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
System Details DVD, Dolby digital stereo.
Cast Meshes of the afternoon: Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid ; At land: John Cage, Parker Tyler ; A study in choreography for camera: Talley Beatty ; Ritual in transfigured time: Rita Christiani, Anaïs Nin ; Meditation on violence: Chao Li Chi ; The very eye of night: Metropolitan Opera Ballet School.
Note Originally released as motion pictures 1943-1959.
Features: excerpt from Deren's "Divine horsemen : the living gods of Haiti," excerpt from Alexander Hammid's "Private life of a cat," picture gallery, notes and quotes, biography.
Audience Not rated.
Summary Collection of short films by surrealist Russian-American filmmaker Deren, studying identity, movement, and freedom.
Contents Meshes of the afternoon (1943-59, 14 min.) / collaboration with Alexander Hammid -- At land (1944, 15 min.) -- A study in choreography for camera (1945, 4 min.) -- Ritual in transfigured time (1945-46, 15 min.) -- Meditation on violence (1948, 12 min.) -- The very eye of night (1952-59, 15 min.) / choreographic collaboration with Anthony Tudor.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Dreams -- Drama.
Dance -- Drama.
Martial arts -- Drama.
Genre/Form Short films.
Experimental films.
Silent films.
Motion picture film collections.
Added Author Deren, Maya.
Hammid, Alexander.
Tudor, Antony, 1908-1987.
Cage, John.
Tyler, Parker.
Beatty, Talley.
Christiani, Rita.
Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977.
Chi, Ch'ao-Li.
Mystic Fire Video, Inc.
Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Ballet.
Added Title Experimental films
Meshes of the afternoon (Motion picture)
At land (Motion picture)
Study in choreography for the camera (Motion picture)
Ritual in transfigured time (Motion picture)
Meditation on violence (Motion picture)
Very eye of night (Motion picture)
Standard No. 880198037794
Music No. MC377 Mystic Fire Video
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