Laura Mulvey called her the mother of the avant-garde, and indeed, many histories credit Maya Deren with the inauguration ... The film was shot in 1943 in Los Angeles by Deren's then-husband, ...

but in terms of its impact on American cinema, it is right up there with D. W. Griffith's The Birth of a Nation and Orson Welles' Citizen Kane. Maya Deren and Alexandr Hackenshmied's unapologetic ...