This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her years in Haiti (1947-1951); she never edited the footage, so this “finished” version was made by Teiji Ito and Cherel Ito after Deren’s death.

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03 Freiheit - George Lucas

04 Daybreaker Express - D.A Pennebaker

05 Vincent - Tim Burton

06 Terminal Bar - Stefan Nadelman

07 Terry Tate: Office Linebacker - Rawson Marshall Thurber

08 Necrology - Standish Lawder

09 The Discipline of D.E - Gus Van Sant

10 The Wraith of Cobble Hill - Adam Parrish King

11 George Lucas in Love - Joe Nussbaum

12 Meshes of the Afternoon - Maya Deren

13 Carmen - Alexander Payne

14 Feelings - Todd Solondz

15 Paperboys - Mike Mills

16 Screen Test: Helmut - Andy Warhol

0年代美国先锋派的领军人物和代言人玛雅·德伦用自己的天赋和努力催生出美国前卫电影运动,她是这场运动的旗手,既是电影制作者、发行者、理论家,又是演讲者和宣传者。玛雅·德伦在创作和理论上的创举影响很多美国实验电影人。
Experimental filmmaker Maya Deren created some of the mosthypnotic and beautiful avantgarde films ever made.Several of these groundbreaking shorts reveal her fascination with movement and ritual:"A Study in Choreography for the Camera"features dancer Talley Beatty leaping through vast expanses of space,thanks to the magic of editing.Both"At Land"and "Ritual in Transfigured Time"use choreograhhic techniques to explore the everyday rituals we go through in our encounters with other human beings."Meditation on Violence"focuses on the elegant motions of Chinese boxing.while "The Very Eye of Night"transforms a stage ballet by Antony Tudor into pure cinematic f bb antasy.But Deren s true masterpiece is "Meshes of The Afternoon",a narratively complex,psychological study of a woman--played by te director herself....
收录目录：
1、午后的迷惘
2、在陆地上
3、为摄影机而做的编舞研究
4、变形时间的仪式
5、暴力的冥想
6、夜之眼

1951 film directed by Maya Deren

Maya Deren’s shortest, two-minute A Study in Choreography for Camera seems like an exercise piece to capture a dancer’s movement on celluloid, which later on developed into her masterpieces such as Ritual in Transfigured Time and Meditation on Violence.

Chao-Li Chi shadow boxes indoors and practices with a sword outdoors. Theoretically, the film describes in a single continuous movement three degrees of traditional Chinese boxing, Wu-tang, Shao-lin, and Shao-lin with a sword. A long sequence of the ballet-like, sinuous Wu-tang becomes the more erratic Shao-lin; in the middle, there is an abrupt change to leaping sword movements, in the center of which, at the apogee of the leap, there is a long held freeze-frame.

The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several individuals, most notably an unnamed young woman and an elderly gentleman. The film also shows a shadowy darkness and people filmed at odd angles, an exposed human heart, and other occult symbols and ritualistic imagery which evokes an unsettling and dream-like aura. Considered an unfinished film.

A social event choreographed in the manner of a dance, illuminated by concepts drawn from Greek legend; one of filmmaker Maya Deren's most intriguing works.

1944 film by Maya Deren

1944 film by Alexandr Hackenschmied, Maya Deren

1943 silent short film