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.

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

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.

1944 film by Maya Deren

1943 silent short film