Laura Mulvey called her the mother of the avant-garde, and indeed, many histories credit Maya Deren with the inauguration of an experimental film practice in the United States and Meshes of the ...
Maya Deren and Alexandr Hackenshmied's unapologetic ... including telephones and mirrors — is readily apparent in Meshes of the Afternoon. The work has been described as the first "trance ...
Maya Deren (1917-1961) was an experimental filmmaker. In the 1940s and 1950s she made several influential avant-garde films, such as Meshes of the Afternoon (1943). Images from this and her other ...