MAYA DEREN

This is my favourite film by Maya Deren. film score by johnny greenwood . Maya Deren , written directed and starred by Maya Deren herself. It reminded me of the log scene I filmed on the beach. I love the way she combines two worlds,
the transition between different worlds. One foot still on driftwood o the beach for example , while her head is over looking a boardroom table. I also like the transition between live action and stop animation. ( the chess set ) Could possibly try that in future.

At Land , made in 1944, is a 15 minute silent experimental film.  It has a     d r e a m    l i k e    narrative in which a women (Deren )  is washed up on shore , and begins a strange journey , encountering people and other versions of herself.

Deren said the " the film is about the struggle to maintain one's personal identity"

Johnny Greenwood and Deren collaborated in the film, Greenwood creating the soundtrack.  create the soundtrack

                                                                 BRYCE ! !

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FOR ACTUAL READING ON MAYA DEREN AND 'FEMINISMS IN THE CINEMA ' REFER TO MY UNDERLINED PRINTED OUT NOTES IN WORK BOOK.

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) is a short experimental film directed by wife and husband team, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid. The film's narrative is circular, and repeats a number of psychologically symbolic images, including a flower on a long driveway, a key falling, a door unlocked, a knife in a loaf of bread, a mysterious Grim Reaper--like cloaked figure with a mirror for a face, a phone off the hook and an ocean. Through creative editing, distinct camera angles, and slow motion, the surrealist film depicts a world in which it is more and more difficult to catch reality.

"Deren's Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) uses a repetitive, loosely narrative structure and Freudian symbolism to examine female subjectivity in cinema." (Erin Foster)