Screening
Maya Deren Films
In conjunction with the exhibition Inverted Odysseys: Claude Cahun, Maya Deren, Cindy Sherman
Film Screening
Maya Deren Films
Friday, November 12, 6 pm
721 Broadway, Room 656
Maya Deren, Director.
Witch’s Cradle (unfinished), 1943, 12 min.; Meshes of the Afternoon (with Alexander Hammid), 1943, 14 min.; At Land, 1944, 14 min.; A Study in Choreography for Camera (with Talley Beatty), 1945, 3 min.; Ritual in Transfigured Time, 1946, 15 min.; Meditation on Violence, 1948, 13 min.; The Very Eye of Night, 1959, 15 min.; Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (assembled by Teiji Ito and Cherel Ito from Deren’s footage in 1977), 54 min.; all b/w. Total running time: 130 min.
Maya Deren’s films Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, A Study in Choreography for Camera, Ritual in
Transfigured Time, Meditation on Violence, and The Very Eye of Night will also be shown on Thursday, November 18, at 8 pm and 9:30 pm; and on Sunday, November 21, at 6 pm; and unedited footage shot by Maya Deren in Haiti will be screened on Saturday, November 20, at 4 pm, at Anthology Film Archives, 32 Second Avenue.
Cosponsored by the Department of Cinema Studies, with assistance from the Department of Film and Television, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University.
For details and ticket prices, call 212/505-5110.