With her first film collaboration, Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), Maya Deren changed the face of experimental cinema. In Martina Kudláček’s exceptionally constructed documentary we follow Deren’s life from her birth in Kiev through a career which enveloped film, poetry, dance and ethnography. Aided by reminiscences from Deren’s friends and contemporaries – among them Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage – Kudláček paints a portrait of Maya Deren as an artist rich in life and celebrates a career that spread its influence throughout the art world.
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- Year2001
- Runtime103 minutes
- LanguageGerman
- CountryAustria, Switzerland, Germany
- DirectorMartina Kudláček
- Co-ProducerJohannes Holzhausen, Constantin Wulff Johannes Rosenberger,
- CinematographerStéphane Kuthy, Wolfgang Lehner
- EditorHenry Hills
- MusicJohn Zorn
With her first film collaboration, Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), Maya Deren changed the face of experimental cinema. In Martina Kudláček’s exceptionally constructed documentary we follow Deren’s life from her birth in Kiev through a career which enveloped film, poetry, dance and ethnography. Aided by reminiscences from Deren’s friends and contemporaries – among them Jonas Mekas and Stan Brakhage – Kudláček paints a portrait of Maya Deren as an artist rich in life and celebrates a career that spread its influence throughout the art world.
(Copy written by Si Edwards)
YOU MAY ALSO LIKE
- Year2001
- Runtime103 minutes
- LanguageGerman
- CountryAustria, Switzerland, Germany
- DirectorMartina Kudláček
- Co-ProducerJohannes Holzhausen, Constantin Wulff Johannes Rosenberger,
- CinematographerStéphane Kuthy, Wolfgang Lehner
- EditorHenry Hills
- MusicJohn Zorn
