Maya Deren. Dance Films.

Format:

Video

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Choreography--Avant Garde.

Choreography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 video file)

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Video, Bloomsbury Publishing, 2022.

Place of Publication:

Paris : Revoir Video, 2013.

Biography/History:

Director, Maya Deren; music, Teiji Ito, Maya Deren. Maya Deren, born Eleonora Derenkowska, was a Ukrainian-born American filmmaker and 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. .

Summary:

Four short dance films by Maya Deren. A Study in Choreography for the Camera 1945 b/w 2:30 mins. Ritual in Transfigured Time 1946 b/w 14:30 mins. Meditation on Violence 1948 b/w 13 mins. The Very Eye of Night 1952-55 b/w 15 mins. In this film, I have attempted to place a dancer in a limitless, cinemato-graphic space. Moreover, he shares, with the camera, a collaborative responsibility for the movements themselves. This is, in other words, a dance which can exist only on film. The movement of the dancer creates a geography that never was. With a turn of the foot, he makes neighbors of distant places. Maya Deren on A Study in Choreography for the Camera, 1945 .

Credits:

Director, Maya Deren ; composer, Teiji Ito, Maya Deren.

OCLC:

1356504545