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Maya Deren

Maya Deren (April 29, 1917, Kiev – October 13, 1961, New York City), born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, poet, writer and photographer.

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By Anonymous on Wed, 25/11/2015 - 16:21

The strict separation between art forms belongs to the past. In a continuous cross-fertilization, different art forms inspire, influence and reinforce each other, although sometimes they can not let to ruff or laugh with the other. During the first part of the evening we highlight artists whose practices can be seen as a amalgam of different diciplines. The second part focusses mainly on Duchamp and his unlimited practice. Starting with Anémic Cinéma, we describe his influence on the work of Maya Deren and Liliane Lijn.

Dates:
Monday, November 30, 2015 - 20:30
Venue:
OFFoff Cinema - Ghent, Belgium
Masterworks of American Avant-Garde Experimental Film 1920-1970
Flicker Alley and the Blackhawk Films® Collection, in collaboration with Filmmakers Showcase, are proud to present Masterworks of American Avant-garde Experimental Film 1920-1970 in a 4-disc Blu-ray/DVD Combo Edition. This breathtaking collection includes 30 films, restored to pristine high-definition, from some of the foremost experimental filmmakers of the 20th century.

Commencing in 1920 with Charles Sheeler and Paul Strand’s creative collaboration on Manhatta, successive generations of experimental filmmakers and artists have worked in collaboration or alone to create a cinema capable of expressing dynamic unspoken concepts in totally abstract visual terms.

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Average: 3.8 (8 votes)
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Blu-Ray
Publisher:
Flicker Alley
Maya Deren. Incomplete Control
Maya Deren (1917-1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the American avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp, she is best known for her seminal film Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), a dream-like experiment with time and symbol, looped narrative and provocative imagery, setting the stage for the twentieth-century's groundbreaking aesthetic movements and films.

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Average: 3.8 (9 votes)
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Books
Publisher:
Columbia University Press
Free Radicals: A history of experimental film
RE:VOIR is proud to announce the release of the new DVD "FREE RADICALS - A HISTORY OF EXPERIMENTAL FILM" by Pip Chodorov. The DVD features 8 bonus short films by key filmmakers who appear in the documentary and it is subtitled in 8 languages (FRANÇAIS, ESPAÑOL, SRPSKI, ČESKÉ, LIETUVIŲ, 中文, 日本語, 한국어). It also includes a 56-page booklet with texts by Jonas Mekas, Scott Hammen, Raphaël Bassan and Nathaniel Draper.

"Free Radicals" has been screened in 50 international festivals and distributed theatrically in France, USA and Canada.
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Average: 3.5 (12 votes)
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DVD
Publisher:
Re:voir
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
This feature-length documentary provides a vivid, eye-opening, and appropriately personal introduction to one of the most important, yet perpetually marginalized, realms of filmmaking: avant-garde cinema.

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Average: 3.2 (10 votes)
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DVD
Publisher:
Kino Lorber
Xcèntric: Antoni Padrós

By Marcos Ortega on Tue, 16/10/2012 - 16:43
Xcèntric: Antoni Padrós
Thursday, October 25th 2012, 20h
Sunday, October 28th 2012, 18:30h
Xcèntric CCCB, Montalegre, 5, 08001 Barcelona

The 13th season of Xcèntric opens with Antoni Padrós, a Catalan underground filmmaker with a genuinely subversive, ironic, iconoclastic body of work. He is currently receiving deserved recognition from our institutions: Xcèntric included his short film Ice Cream in the programme “Del éxtasis al arrebato”, the Reina Sofia Museum has acquired his entire body of work, and his filmography has been restored by the Filmoteca de Catalunya, which has also prepared a special DVD edition with Cameo. Xcèntric is honoured to have the presence of Padrós, who selected the films in this screening, establishing a dialogue between one of his works and a key film that influenced him.

Thursday, October 25th 2012, 20h
- Meshes of the Afternoon (Maya Deren, 1945, 16 mm, 17 min)
- Dafnis y Cloe (Antoni Padrós, 1969, 18 min) [video screening, copy courtesy of the Filmoteca de Catalunya].

Sunday, October 28th 2012, 18:30h
- Shirley Temple Story (Antoni Padrós, 1976, 208 min) [video screening, copy courtesy of the Filmoteca de Catalunya].
Taking a wild pretext (Shirley Temple’s journey to Emerald Country to meet the Wizard of Oz and demand the role of Dorothy that was snatched by Judy Garland), in this fabulous camp film Padrós humorously and unceremoniously smashes the myths of Hollywood film to smithereens.
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Events
Maya Deren - Divine horsemen
"In September 1947 I disembarked in Haïti, for an eight-month stay, with eighteen motley pieces of lugage; seven of these consisted of 16-millimeter motion-picture equipment (three cameras, tripods, raw film stock, etc.), of which three were related to sound recording for a film, and three contained equipment for still photography." - Maya Deren

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Average: 3 (1 vote)
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DVD
Publisher:
Re:voir
Martina Kudlacek - In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Using footage from filmmaker Maya Deren's avant-garde films of the 1940s, including the seminal Meshes of the Afternoon (1942) , At Land (1943) , and Ritual in Transfigured Time (1948) ; archival audio interviews and observances from contemporaries such as Stan Brakhage, Amos Vogel, and Jonas Mekas, the documentary provides a glimpse into the mind and life of this groundbreaking and influential artist.

Rating:

Average: 3.8 (8 votes)
Category:
DVD
Publisher:
Zeitgeist FIlms
Maya Deren - Experimental 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.

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Average: 4 (3 votes)
Category:
DVD
Maya Deren - Divine Horsemen
Maya Deren takes us on a journey into the fascinating world of the Voudoun religion, whose devotees commune with the cosmic powers through invocation, offerings, song and dance. The Voudoun pantheon of deities, or loa, is witnessed as being living gods an

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Average: 4 (1 vote)
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DVD