Teiji Ito

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.

Maya Deren's Sink, a 30 minute experimental film, is an evocative tribute to the mother of avantgarde American film. The film calls forth the spirit of one who was larger than life as recounted by those who knew her. Teiji Ito's family, Carolee Schneemann and Judith Malvina, float through the homes recalling in tiny bits and pieces words of Deren's architectural and personal interior space. Clips from Maya Deren's films are projected back into the spaces where they were originally filmed appearing on the floorboard, furniture, and in the bowl of her former sink. Fluid light projections of intimate space provide an elusive agency for a filmmaker most of us will never know as film with its imaginary nature evokes a former time and space.

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.

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.

An expansion upon an idea put forward in Marie Menken's film Notebook; single-frame footage of the moon shot on various nights, blinking and darting around within Menken's field of vision.

In 1963 Boultenhouse wrote, produced, and directed Dionysius,which he described as a “free treatment of Euripides' The Bacchae.”It starred the dancers Louis Falco, Anna Duncan, and Nicolas Magallanes as Dionysius, Agave, and Pentheus respectively, and the experimental filmmakers Charles Levine, Willard Maas, Gregory Markopoulos, Marie Menken, Lloyd Williams and William Wood as the Chorus of Cameras. The film's score was by Teiji Ito.

"This is a new version of the now famous film made for her husband, the poet and film-maker. Returning from the Brussels fair, she shot this at Versailles and the Louvre. There is wit, irony and prophecy here (though perhaps not apparent to those who do not know Marie Menken and Willard Maas personally). She says only 'A more serious film than ARABESQUE, BAGATELLE attempts to synchronize into a lyric statement some observations on Versailles.' Marie Menken's fountains are the fountains of life. Marie Menken's Versailles is the Versailles of death. The beauty of this film is the alternation of the fountains and Versaille death. Only Marie Menken would have the subtlety, sensibility, sesitivity, receptivity to fuse and fetilize the classical paradoxes in such an immediate visual apotheosis." -- Charles Boultenhouse

Filmed at the Alhambra in Spain in just one day, according to Marie Menken. Arabesque for Kenneth Anger concentrates on visual details found in Moorish architecture and in ancient Spanish tile. The date 1961 refers to the addition of Teiji Ito's soundtrack and its subsequent completion, but the film was likely shot in 1960 or earlier. - David Lewis

A combination of animated line drawings with live photography of a nude model. A play on the title (living lines, life model, procreation and hand life line).

Menken's 16mm, stop-motion tribute to the art of Dwight Ripley was filmed in 1959 in his apartment at 416 East Fifty-eighth Street in New York. She used his drawings as flats.The remarkably contemporary soundtrack for steel drum, guitar, flute, and voice was written for the occasion by Maya Deren's young husband, Teiji Ito, and is available in his album Music for Maya (Tzadik). Stan Brakhage called Dwightiana a pioneer example of the film portrait, abstract rather than narrative (the colored pencils represent Ripley's palette). Ripley was also a botanist, and Menken's unusual title alludes to botanical nomenclature as if Dwightiana might be the name of a species as well as a work "about" Dwight.

Because of the film's choices of text and illustration were made so well – and because the natural anatomy of memory is so like that of cinema montage– the movie's effectiveness is very great, and it stands as a worthy initial exploration of the medium in which Mr. Boultenhouse has wrought so well. –Wallce Thurston, Kulchur #16

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.

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.

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.