and perhaps no filmmaker surveyed the boundaries of cinematic possibility more exquisitely than Maya Deren. Surrealistic, choreographic, poetic, Deren’s films remain some of the most entrancing and ...

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, ...

Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts from her pioneering Meshes of the Afternoon and ...

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 ...

This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren, and colleagues who knew her firsthand: Jean Rouch, Jonas Mekas, Alexander Hammid, Cecile Starr etc. Maya Deren (1917-1961 ...