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Maya Deren: Experimental films

Title: Maya Deren: Experimental films [videorecording]
Publication: New York, N.Y. : Mystic Fire Video, c1986.

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Description

1 videocassette (74 min.) : sd. and si., b&w NTSC.; 1/2 in. (VHS)

Summary

Video recording of six cinedance works. For 16mm recordings of four of these works, see: *MGZHB 2-166 A study in choreography for camera ; *MGZHB 6-674 Ritual in transfigured time ; *MGZHB 6-976 Meditation on violence ; *MGZHB 6-675 The very eye of night.

Alternative Title

Maya Deren: Collected experimental films

Subjects

Genre/Form

Dance.
Motion pictures.
Video.

Note

Title on frame: Maya Deren: Collected experimental films.
Title on cassette label and wrapper: Maya Deren: Experimental films.

Contents

Meshes of the afternoon (1943) (ca. 14 min.) / a film by Maya Deren and Alexander Ham[m]id, Hollywood, 1943 ; music, Teiji Ito ; performed by Maya Deren, Alexander Hammid and others.
At land (1944) (si., ca. 15 min.) / photographed with the assistance of Hella Hamon [Heyman] and Alexander Ham[m]id, New York, 1944.
A study in choreography for camera (1945) (si., ca. 4 min.) / by Maya Deren and Talley Beatty ; danced by Talley Beatty.
Ritual in transfigured time (c1946) (si., ca. 15 min.) / photography, Hella Hayman [Heyman] ; choreographic collaboration, Frank Westbrook ; performed by Rita Christiani, Frank Westbrook, Anaïs Nin, Maya Deren, and others. Silent.
Meditation on violence (c1948) (ca. 12 min.) / movement based on traditional methods of the wu-tang and shao-lin schools of Chinese boxing ; music, Chinese flute and Haitian drum music arranged by Maya Deren ; performed by Ch'ao-li Chi.
The very eye of night (1952-1959) (ca. 15 min.) / conceived, directed, filmed and edited by Maya Deren ; choreography for camera by Maya Deren, made in collaboration with Metropolitan Opera Ballet School students under the direction of Antony Tudor ; music, Teiji Ito ; lighting, Ernst Neukanen ; performed by Don Freisinger and Richard Sandifer (Gemini) ; Patricia Ferrier (Ariel) ; Bud Brody (Oberon) ; Genaro Gomez (Umbriel) ; Barbara Levin (Titania) ; Richard Englund (Uranus) ; Rosemary Williams (Urania) ; Phillip Salem (Noctambulo) ; music played by Louis and Bebe Barron.

Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5377

ISBN

1561760331

OCLC

144662657
NYPY906002427-F

Title

Maya Deren: Experimental films [videorecording]

Imprint

New York, N.Y. : Mystic Fire Video, c1986.

Country of Producing Entity

U.S.

Local Subject

Television. Maya Deren: Experimental films.

Motion pictures. Meshes of the afternoon.

Motion pictures. At land.

Motion pictures. A study in choreography for camera.

Motion pictures. Ritual in transfigured time.

Motion pictures. Meditation on violence.

Motion pictures. The very eye of night.

Cinedance.

Added Author

Deren, Maya. drt, choreographer, dancer.

Beatty, Talley, choreographer.

Beatty, Talley, dancer.

Christiani, Rita, dancer.

Westbrook, Frank, choreographer, dancer.

Nin, Anaïs, 1903-1977, dancer.

Chi, Ch'ao-Li. Performer

Englund, Richard, 1931-1991, dancer.

Ferrier, Pat, dancer.

Salem, Philip, dancer.

Barron, Bebe. Musician

Barron, Louis, 1920-1989. Musician

Hammid, Alexander. Performer

Heyman, Hella. Photographer

Itō, Teiji. Composer

Tudor, Antony, 1909-1987.

Metropolitan Opera (New York, N.Y.). Ballet School.

Mystic Fire Video, Inc.

Research Call Number

*MGZIA 4-5377

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