Films by Maya Deren

      • Meshes of the Afternoon, by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid, 1943, 16mm, 14 min. Music by Teiji Ito added 1959. 

      • At Land , 1944, 16mm ,15 min silent. Photographed with the assistance of Hella Heyman and Alexander Hammid. 

      • A Study in Choreography for Camera, 1945, by Maya Deren and Talley Beatty , 16mm,4 min., silent. 

      • Ritual in Transfigured Time, 1945-46, 16mm, 15 min, silent. With appearances by Rita Christiani and Frank Westbrook. Choreographic collaboration by Frank Westbrook.
        Photographed by Hella Heyman.

      • Meditation on Violence, 1948, 16mm 12 min., sound. Chinese flute and Haitian
        drum music arranged by Maya Deren. Performance by Chao-li Chi.
         

      • The Very Eye of Night, 1952-55 (released 1959) 16mm, 15 min., sound. Made in collaboration
        with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School students under the direction

        of Antony Tudor. Music by Teiji Ito.
         

        Unfinished work--*outtakes at Anthology Film Archives, New York City

        *Witches Cradle ,1943 with Marcel Duchamp, 16mm 13 min.

        *Medusa (YMHA workshop) 1949, 16mm, 10 min.

        *Haitian film footage 1947-54, 16mm ca. 15.000 feet

        Ensemble for Somnabulists ( Toronto Film Society workshop 1951), 16mm, 20 min.

        *Haiku footage , 1959-60, 16mm , ca. 58 min

        Source: Legend of Maya Deren, a Documentary and Collected Works, 
        Part 1 : Signatures, 1917-1942 by Veve A. Clark, Millicent Hodson, 
        Catrina Neiman, Francine B. Price (June1984)

         

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