Maya Deren experimental films / Mystic Fire Video and Cherel Ito ; directed by Maya Deren.

Format:

Video

Contributor:

Deren, Maya, director, composer.

Itō, Teiji, 1922-2010, composer.

Ito, Cherel, producer.

Hammid, Alexander, director.

Mystic Fire Video, Inc., producer.

Samuel P. Orlando Fund.

Language:

English

Genre:

Silent films.

Short films.

Documentary films.

Video recordings.

Physical Description:

1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound and silent, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

monochrome

Other Title:

Maya Deren collected experimental films

Experimental films

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Mystic Fire Video, [2002]

System Details:

DVD.

digital

optical

video file

DVD video

Summary:

Presents examples of Maya Deren's work which evoke and exemplify the American avant-garde film movement of the 1940s and 1950s.

Contents:

Meshes of the afternoon (1943) (sd.)

At land (1944) (si.)

A study in choreography for camera (1945) (si.)

Ritual in transfigured time (1945) (si.)

Meditation on violence (1948) (sd.)

The very eye of night (1952-1959) (sd.)

excerpt from The divine horsemen (1977) (sd.)

Private life of a cat (1956) (sd.) / Alexander Hammid.

Credits:

Music, Teiji Ito (1st, 6th works), Maya Deren (5th work).

Notes:

Special features: biography; picture gallery; notes and quotes.

Videodisc release of six short experimental films produced between 1943 and 1959; one excerpt from a longer documentary film produced in 1947-1951 by Maya Deren; and, one short film produced in 1956, directed by Alexander Hammid.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Samuel P. Orlando Fund.

Contains:

Meshes of the afternoon.

At land.

Study in choreography for camera.

Ritual in transfigured time.

Meditation on violence.

Very eye of night.

Divine horsemen.

Private life of a cat.

ISBN:

1561764937

OCLC:

50924793

Publisher Number:

1509876493

76493 Mystic Fire Video