MAYA DEREN

MAYA DEREN

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  • MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON

    With MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON, the wife-and-husband team of Maya Deren and Alexander Hackenschmied created one of the keystone achievements of American avant-garde cinema in their Hollywood home. During its first decade of release, this captivating psychodrama was presented silent (with no soundtr...

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  • MEDITATION ON VIOLENCE

    MEDITATION ON VIOLENCE pivots on the precise movements of Chao-Li Chi, a solitary Chinese martial artist, performing a ritualized dance set against white and black backgrounds. It reaches an epiphany when he abruptly moves outside, jumps and freezes in mid-air, then resumes the dance in reverse o...