This documentary examines how Maya Deren shaped the course of avant-garde filmmaking in the United States through works such as the iconic Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) and other films. Filmmaker Martina Kudlácek interviews those who knew Deren personally and features excerpts from her films as well as examining her unfinished work documenting Haitian voodoo rituals.
Starring: Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Alexander Hammid, Katherine Dunham...
Starring: Jonas Mekas, Stan Brakhage, Alexander Hammid, Katherine Dunham...
- 10/21/2018
- by Mike Everleth
- Underground Film Journal
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