Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The Maya Deren collection / Maya Deren.

Publisher, Date:

New York, NY : Kino Classics, [2020]

Description:

1 videodisc (approximately 208 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.

4 3/4 in.

stamping

digital

optical

NTSC

video file

DVD video

region 1

Summary:

Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Her most famous and influential is Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), co-directed with Alexander Hammid, which depicts a surrealist slippage in reality as a woman's home becomes a shifting landscape of beauty and menace.

Subjects:

Dreams -- Drama.

Cats -- Drama.

Hand-to-hand fighting, Oriental.

Dance.

Vodou.

Genre:

Experimental films.

Documentary films.

Fiction films.

Short films.

Feature films.

Other Author:

Deren, Maya, film director, screenwriter.

Hammid, Alexander, film director.

Kino Classics (Firm), publisher.

Other Title:

Container of (work): Meshes of the afternoon (Motion picture)

Container of (work): At land (Motion picture)

Container of (work): study in choreography for camera (Motion picture)

Container of (work): private life of a cat (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Ritual in transfigured time (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Meditation on violence (Motion picture)

Container of (work): very eye of night (Motion picture)

Container of (work): Divine horsemen: The living gods of Haiti (Motion picture)

Notes:

Originally released as films 1943-1977.

Special features: audio commentaries on Divine Horsemen, Meditation on Violence, and Ritual in Transfigured Time by film scholar Moira Jean Sullivan ; audio commentaries on At land, Meshes of the afternoon, and The very eye of night by film curator, Thomas Beard ; never-released outtakes from the original soundtrack recording sessions ; Invocation: Maya Deren (1987, a documentary by Jo Ann Kaplan).

DVD, NTSC.

Contents:

Meshes of the afternoon (14 min. ; 1943) ; At land (15 min. ;)1944) ; A study in choreography for camera (4 min. ; 1945) ; The private life of a cat (22 min. ; 1946) ; Ritual in transfigured time (15 min. ; 1946) ; Meditation on violence (12 min. ; 1948) ; The very eye of night (15 min. ; 1958) ; Divine horesemen: The living gods of Haiti (15 min. ; 1947-1954, 1977)

ISBN:

9786318069151 : DVD

6318069151 : DVD

Publisher Number:

K24281

Other Number:

1135325841

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

829685

# Local items in:

0

# System items in:

0

Call Number:

DVD 791.4375 Maya Der