{"product_id":"the-maya-deren-collection","title":"The Maya Deren Collection","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"products__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"products__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"products__description\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"products__description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMaya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time and Kino Classics and Re:Voir are proud to present new 2K restorations of her essential work. Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Her most famous and influential is Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), co-directed with Alexander Hammid, which depicts a surrealist slippage in reality as a woman’s home becomes a shifting landscape of beauty and menace. At Land (1944) is another psychogeographical journey where Deren washes up on a beach and encounters a multiplicity of selves. Also included are four 1940s dance films (A Study in Choreography for Camera, Ritual in Transfigured Time, Meditation on Violence, and The Very Eye of Night) in which, as Deren wrote, “I have attempted to place a dancer in limitless, cinemato-graphic space.” She and Hammid put felines through a similarly intimate process in The Private Life of a Cat (1947), which foresaw the future of cat videos. A different exploration of movement occurs in Divine Horsemen (1947-1951, 1979), a remarkable hour-long montage of footage that Deren shot of Haitian Voodoo ceremonies. Stan Brakhage called Maya Deren “the mother of us all.” The history of avant-garde film is unthinkable without her.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIncludes the films:\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeshes of the Afternoon\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAt Land\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Study in Choreography for Camera\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eRitual in Transfigured Time\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Private Life of a Cat\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMeditation on Violence\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe Very Eye of Night\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDivine Horsemen\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"products__attributes\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eProduct Extras\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e:\n\u003cp\u003eAudio commentaries on Divine Horsemen, Meditation on Violence, and Ritual in Transfigured Time by film scholar Moira Jean Sullivan\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAudio commentaries on At Land, Meshes of the Afternoon, and The Very Eye of Night by film curator Thomas Beard\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eNever-released outtakes from the original soundtrack recording sessions with Teiji Ito on Meshes of the Afternoon and The Very Eye of Night\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eInvocation: Maya Deren (1987, a documentary by Jo Ann Kaplan)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAlternate French audio for\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDivine Horsemen\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003erecorded by Raymonde Carasco\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eVoix-off version française enregistrée par Raymonde Carasco\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kino Lorber","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45335122837548,"sku":"738329242824","price":22.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0359\/2201\/8348\/files\/the-maya-deren-collection-new-blu-ray-738329242824-8613366.jpg?v=1772339168","url":"https:\/\/www.orbitdvd.com\/products\/the-maya-deren-collection","provider":"Orbit DVD","version":"1.0","type":"link"}