Maya Deren

자신들이 속해있던 권력 구조에 대한 대안적 가능성을 찾는 세 영화작가들이 세대를 넘나들며 펼치는 연대에 관한 작품이 다 이 작품은 마야 데렌과 바바라 해머가 포기했던 영화 프로젝트로부터 출발하였다 1975 년 해머가 가장 멀리까지 갔던 모터사이클 여행지 과테말라에서 촬영되었고 그것은 1950 년대 아이티에서의 실패와 조우 그리고 시작에 대한 마하 데렌의 자기 반영으로 이어진다 베베르는 신을 불러내기 위한 아이티 부두교 의식에서 사용되는 상징을 지칭한다

자신들이 속해있던 권력 구조에 대한 대안적 가능성을 찾는 세 영화작가들이 세대를 넘나들며 펼치는 연대에 관한 작품이 다 이 작품은 마야 데렌과 바바라 해머가 포기했던 영화 프로젝트로부터 출발하였다 1975 년 해머가 가장 멀리까지 갔던 모터사이클 여행지 과테말라에서 촬영되었고 그것은 1950 년대 아이티에서의 실패와 조우 그리고 시작에 대한 마하 데렌의 자기 반영으로 이어진다 베베르는 신을 불러내기 위한 아이티 부두교 의식에서 사용되는 상징을 지칭한다

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) was an experimental filmmaker. In the 1940s and 1950s she made several influential avant-garde films, such as Meshes of the Afternoon (1943). Images from this and her other work are used in this documentary. You can also hear her voice, as well as accounts by contemporaries such as Jean Rouch and Jonas Mekas.

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) was an experimental filmmaker. In the 1940s and 1950s she made several influential avant-garde films, such as Meshes of the Afternoon (1943). Images from this and her other work are used in this documentary. You can also hear her voice, as well as accounts by contemporaries such as Jean Rouch and Jonas Mekas.

CINEMA16 celebrates the short film by showcasing some of the best classic and award-winning shorts on DVD. With over three hours of films CINEMA16: AMERICAN SHORT FILMS is essential viewing for anyone with an interest in the moving image. Films include Gus Van Sant's 1982 adaptation of a William S. Burroughs short story, The Discipline Of DE, Tim Burton's early stop motion animated classic Vincent, George Lucas' USC short Freiheit, Alexander Payne's previously unreleased UCLA graduation short Carmen, Paperboys by Mike Mills, D.A. Pennebaker's Duke Ellington scored Daybreak Express, Todd Solondz's NYU short Feelings, along with Oscar Winner The Lunch Date by Adam Davidson, Stefan Nadelman's multi- award winning documentary Terminal Bar, Joe Nussbaum's cult classic George Lucas In Love and 2006 Sundance Winner The Wraith Of Cobble Hill by Adam Parrish King. Films are subtitled in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Japanese, and include commentaries from many of the directors involved.

미국 아방가르드 영화의 핵심적 인물이 된 마야데렌의 전설적인 일대기를 흥미롭게 재구성하여 그려낸 마르티나 쿠드리첵의 장편 다큐멘터리. 영화, 안무, 무용, 제의, 부두교 등 마야 데렌의 삶의 주요 테마들에 촛점을 맞추고 그녀의 페르소나를 찾아가는 이 작품은, 20세기 중요한 여성 선구자, 마야데렌의 궤적을 따라 그녀의 삶의 장소와 사람들을 만나며 ‘마야데렌의 자화상’을 그려낸다.

The collected shorts of Maya Deren the "Mother of the trance film" who worked completely outside the commercial film industry and made her own inner experience the center of her films.The collected shorts of Maya Deren the "Mother of the trance film" who worked completely outside the commercial film industry and made her own inner experience the center of her films.

The collected shorts of Maya Deren the "Mother of the trance film" who worked completely outside the commercial film industry and made her own inner experience the center of her films.The collected shorts of Maya Deren the "Mother of the trance film" who worked completely outside the commercial film industry and made her own inner experience the center of her films.

The collected shorts of Maya Deren the "Mother of the trance film" who worked completely outside the commercial film industry and made her own inner experience the center of her films.The collected shorts of Maya Deren the "Mother of the trance film" who worked completely outside the commercial film industry and made her own inner experience the center of her films.

The collected shorts of Maya Deren the "Mother of the trance film" who worked completely outside the commercial film industry and made her own inner experience the center of her films.The collected shorts of Maya Deren the "Mother of the trance film" who worked completely outside the commercial film industry and made her own inner experience the center of her films.

The collected shorts of Maya Deren the "Mother of the trance film" who worked completely outside the commercial film industry and made her own inner experience the center of her films.The collected shorts of Maya Deren the "Mother of the trance film" who worked completely outside the commercial film industry and made her own inner experience the center of her films.

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 her unfinished documentary on Haiti, interviews with Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas, and recordings of her lectures. Narrated by actress Helen Mirren, this definitive documentary offers startling insights into one of the most intriguing, accomplished figures in cinema history.

This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her years in Haiti (1947-1951); she never edited the footage, so this “finished” version was made by Teiji Ito and Cherel Ito after Deren’s death.

This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her years in Haiti (1947-1951); she never edited the footage, so this “finished” version was made by Teiji Ito and Cherel Ito after Deren’s death.

Unfinished, 16mm, b&w silent film directed by Maya Deren. No copy of this film exists

Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield background. Their movements are accompanied by music scored for a small ensemble of woodwind and percussion.

Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield background. Their movements are accompanied by music scored for a small ensemble of woodwind and percussion.

Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield background. Their movements are accompanied by music scored for a small ensemble of woodwind and percussion.

Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield background. Their movements are accompanied by music scored for a small ensemble of woodwind and percussion.

Ensemble for Somnambulists was a film Maya Deren made while teaching a workshop at the Toronto Film Society. It was never completed, and is officially "unpublished," but this title has been restored and it screens occasionally along with her other films. It is sort of a preliminary sketch for The Very Eye of Night. ~ David Lewis, Rovi

Ensemble for Somnambulists was a film Maya Deren made while teaching a workshop at the Toronto Film Society. It was never completed, and is officially "unpublished," but this title has been restored and it screens occasionally along with her other films. It is sort of a preliminary sketch for The Very Eye of Night. ~ David Lewis, Rovi

Ensemble for Somnambulists was a film Maya Deren made while teaching a workshop at the Toronto Film Society. It was never completed, and is officially "unpublished," but this title has been restored and it screens occasionally along with her other films. It is sort of a preliminary sketch for The Very Eye of Night. ~ David Lewis, Rovi

Chao-Li Chi shadow boxes indoors and practices with a sword outdoors. Theoretically, the film describes in a single continuous movement three degrees of traditional Chinese boxing, Wu-tang, Shao-lin, and Shao-lin with a sword. A long sequence of the ballet-like, sinuous Wu-tang becomes the more erratic Shao-lin; in the middle, there is an abrupt change to leaping sword movements, in the center of which, at the apogee of the leap, there is a long held freeze-frame.

Chao-Li Chi shadow boxes indoors and practices with a sword outdoors. Theoretically, the film describes in a single continuous movement three degrees of traditional Chinese boxing, Wu-tang, Shao-lin, and Shao-lin with a sword. A long sequence of the ballet-like, sinuous Wu-tang becomes the more erratic Shao-lin; in the middle, there is an abrupt change to leaping sword movements, in the center of which, at the apogee of the leap, there is a long held freeze-frame.

Chao-Li Chi shadow boxes indoors and practices with a sword outdoors. Theoretically, the film describes in a single continuous movement three degrees of traditional Chinese boxing, Wu-tang, Shao-lin, and Shao-lin with a sword. A long sequence of the ballet-like, sinuous Wu-tang becomes the more erratic Shao-lin; in the middle, there is an abrupt change to leaping sword movements, in the center of which, at the apogee of the leap, there is a long held freeze-frame.

Unfinished, 16mm, b&w silent film directed by Maya Deren.

An intimate study of the life of a domestic cat, taking place over a period of months as she gives birth to a litter of kittens and cares for them as they grow.

An intimate study of the life of a domestic cat, taking place over a period of months as she gives birth to a litter of kittens and cares for them as they grow.

An intimate study of the life of a domestic cat, taking place over a period of months as she gives birth to a litter of kittens and cares for them as they grow.

A social event choreographed in the manner of a dance, illuminated by concepts drawn from Greek legend; one of filmmaker Maya Deren’s most intriguing works.

A social event choreographed in the manner of a dance, illuminated by concepts drawn from Greek legend; one of filmmaker Maya Deren’s most intriguing works.

Maya Deren’s shortest, two-minute A Study in Choreography for Camera seems like an exercise piece to capture a dancer’s movement on celluloid, which later on developed into her masterpieces such as Ritual in Transfigured Time and Meditation on Violence.

A woman lies on the sand, left there by the tides and waves (and in a pose that would be copied in From Here to Eternity). She reaches up across tree roots and makes a difficult climb. Only to discover herself climbing horizontally along a long dinner table as bourgeoise black-tie guests chat and drink and smoke, oblivious to her. At the top of the table, a man is playing chess but abandons the game. Fascinated, she gazes at board, the pieces moving unaided. The woman chases a pawn as it falls to the floor. Falls down a waterfall. Is lost.

Witch’s Cradle is an unfinished Maya Deren film made in the Guggenheim Gallery during a surrealist “Art of this Century” exhibit. It was assembled long after her death by staffers within the preservation department at Anthology Film Archives.

A woman lies on the sand, left there by the tides and waves (and in a pose that would be copied in From Here to Eternity). She reaches up across tree roots and makes a difficult climb. Only to discover herself climbing horizontally along a long dinner table as bourgeoise black-tie guests chat and drink and smoke, oblivious to her. At the top of the table, a man is playing chess but abandons the game. Fascinated, she gazes at board, the pieces moving unaided. The woman chases a pawn as it falls to the floor. Falls down a waterfall. Is lost.

A woman lies on the sand, left there by the tides and waves (and in a pose that would be copied in From Here to Eternity). She reaches up across tree roots and makes a difficult climb. Only to discover herself climbing horizontally along a long dinner table as bourgeoise black-tie guests chat and drink and smoke, oblivious to her. At the top of the table, a man is playing chess but abandons the game. Fascinated, she gazes at board, the pieces moving unaided. The woman chases a pawn as it falls to the floor. Falls down a waterfall. Is lost.

미국 실험영화의 새로운 흐름을 이룩했다는 평을 얻은 실험영화의 고전. 내러티브 없이 유사한 장면들이 반복, 순환됨으로써 마치 꿈을 재현한 듯한 느낌을 주는 초현실주의 작품이다. 어느 여성이 꿈 속에서 또 다시 꿈을 꾸는 듯한 나선형 구조이며, 떨어지는 열쇠, 빵을 자르는 칼, 전화기, 거울 등의 상징적 오브제가 반복 등장한다. 흔히 정신분석학적으로 해석되기도 하는 이 영화의 목적을 마야 데렌은 ‘신화적인 경험을 창조하기 위함’이라 밝힌 바 있다. 마야 데렌이 여주인공으로서 직접 출연하며, 두 번째 남편인 알렉산더 해미드와 2주 여의 시간 동안 자신들의 집에서 손수 촬영했다. 대표작이라 불리는 이 첫 번째 작품으로 마야 데렌은 감각을 뒤흔드는 미학을 만들어 내며 차별적인 실험적, 독립적인 초기 미국 여성 영화의 근간을 마련하였다.

미국 실험영화의 새로운 흐름을 이룩했다는 평을 얻은 실험영화의 고전. 내러티브 없이 유사한 장면들이 반복, 순환됨으로써 마치 꿈을 재현한 듯한 느낌을 주는 초현실주의 작품이다. 어느 여성이 꿈 속에서 또 다시 꿈을 꾸는 듯한 나선형 구조이며, 떨어지는 열쇠, 빵을 자르는 칼, 전화기, 거울 등의 상징적 오브제가 반복 등장한다. 흔히 정신분석학적으로 해석되기도 하는 이 영화의 목적을 마야 데렌은 ‘신화적인 경험을 창조하기 위함’이라 밝힌 바 있다. 마야 데렌이 여주인공으로서 직접 출연하며, 두 번째 남편인 알렉산더 해미드와 2주 여의 시간 동안 자신들의 집에서 손수 촬영했다. 대표작이라 불리는 이 첫 번째 작품으로 마야 데렌은 감각을 뒤흔드는 미학을 만들어 내며 차별적인 실험적, 독립적인 초기 미국 여성 영화의 근간을 마련하였다.

미국 실험영화의 새로운 흐름을 이룩했다는 평을 얻은 실험영화의 고전. 내러티브 없이 유사한 장면들이 반복, 순환됨으로써 마치 꿈을 재현한 듯한 느낌을 주는 초현실주의 작품이다. 어느 여성이 꿈 속에서 또 다시 꿈을 꾸는 듯한 나선형 구조이며, 떨어지는 열쇠, 빵을 자르는 칼, 전화기, 거울 등의 상징적 오브제가 반복 등장한다. 흔히 정신분석학적으로 해석되기도 하는 이 영화의 목적을 마야 데렌은 ‘신화적인 경험을 창조하기 위함’이라 밝힌 바 있다. 마야 데렌이 여주인공으로서 직접 출연하며, 두 번째 남편인 알렉산더 해미드와 2주 여의 시간 동안 자신들의 집에서 손수 촬영했다. 대표작이라 불리는 이 첫 번째 작품으로 마야 데렌은 감각을 뒤흔드는 미학을 만들어 내며 차별적인 실험적, 독립적인 초기 미국 여성 영화의 근간을 마련하였다.

미국 실험영화의 새로운 흐름을 이룩했다는 평을 얻은 실험영화의 고전. 내러티브 없이 유사한 장면들이 반복, 순환됨으로써 마치 꿈을 재현한 듯한 느낌을 주는 초현실주의 작품이다. 어느 여성이 꿈 속에서 또 다시 꿈을 꾸는 듯한 나선형 구조이며, 떨어지는 열쇠, 빵을 자르는 칼, 전화기, 거울 등의 상징적 오브제가 반복 등장한다. 흔히 정신분석학적으로 해석되기도 하는 이 영화의 목적을 마야 데렌은 ‘신화적인 경험을 창조하기 위함’이라 밝힌 바 있다. 마야 데렌이 여주인공으로서 직접 출연하며, 두 번째 남편인 알렉산더 해미드와 2주 여의 시간 동안 자신들의 집에서 손수 촬영했다. 대표작이라 불리는 이 첫 번째 작품으로 마야 데렌은 감각을 뒤흔드는 미학을 만들어 내며 차별적인 실험적, 독립적인 초기 미국 여성 영화의 근간을 마련하였다.