@book {expcin15991, title = {The Avant-garde Film: A Reader of Theory and Criticism}, series = { Anthology film archives}, number = {3}, year = {1978}, pages = {295 pp}, publisher = {New York University Press}, organization = {New York University Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

This anthology is both a history of the avant-garde film genre and a compendium of theories of cinema articulated by major filmmakers. The 33 selections include several previously unpublished theoretical and critical articles and many articles that were especially translated into English for this collection. Other selections were drawn from interviews and from lectures contained in the Anthology Film Archives.

}, keywords = {Andy Warhol, Anthony McCall, Antonin Artaud, Ernie Gehr, Germaine Dulac, Hans Richter, Harry Smith, Hollis Frampton, James Broughton, James Whitney, Jean Epstein, John Whitney, Jonas Mekas, Joseph Cornell, Maya Deren, Michael Snow, Paul Sharits, Peter Kubelka, Sergei Eisenstein, Sidney Peterson, Stan Brakhage, Tony Conrad}, isbn = {9780814777930}, author = {P.Adams Sitney and Sergei Eisenstein and Hans Richter and Jean Epstein and Germaine Dulac and Antonin Artaud and Joseph Cornell and Maya Deren and Sidney Peterson and James Broughton and John Whitney and James Whitney and Harry Smith and Carel Rowe and Stan Brakhage and Peter Kubelka and Stephen Koch and Annette Michelson and Michael Snow and Jonas Mekas and Ernie Gehr and Anthony McCall and Paul Sharits and Tony Conrad and Hollis Frampton} } @book {expcin16006, title = {An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film}, series = {Outcast}, volume = {9}, year = {1946}, pages = {52 pp}, publisher = {Alicat Book Shop Press}, organization = {Alicat Book Shop Press}, address = {New York}, abstract = {

{\textquotedblleft}Maya Deren{\textquoteright}s four 16 mm. films have already won considerable acclaim. Convinced that there was poetry in the camera, she defied all commercial production conventions and started to make films with only ordinary amateur equipment. Her first, MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON (1943), was made with her husband Alexander Hammid, whose films{\textendash}FORGOTTEN VILLAGE, CRISIS, HYMN OF THE NATIONS (Toscannini) and others{\textendash}reveal also that devotion to the poetry of vision which formed the common ground of their collaboration. When other work claimed his time, Maya Deren went on by herself{\textendash}conceiving, producing, directing, acting, (being unable to afford actors) photographing (when she was not in the scene) and cutting. Through all the trials of such shoe-string production, which included carrying equipment for miles to the location, she had only assistance of another woman, Hella Heyman, as camerawoman. Yet three more films were made: AT LAND, A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR CAMERA (with Talley Beatty) and RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME, thus proving that fine films could be made {\textquotedblleft}for the price of the lipstick in a single Hollywood production.{\textquotedblright} Her heroic persistence has just been rewarded by a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Moreover, the reputation of the films has spread so that performance at the Provincetown Playhouse were completely sold out and they have also been shown in colleges and museums throughout the country.

In this pamphlet Maya Deren{\textquoteright}s approach to film reflects not the limited scope of a professional craftsman, but a broad cultural background{\textendash}a profound interest not only in esthetics generally and in psychological insight, but in physics and the sciences as well. Russian-born, daughter of a psychiatrist, Maya Deren attended Syracuse University, when she first became interested in film, and received her B.A. from New York University and her M.A. from Smith College, both degrees in literature.{\textquotedblright} (Publisher{\textquoteright}s Note)

}, keywords = {Maya Deren}, url = {https://monoskop.org/log/?p=2665}, author = {Maya Deren} }