Maya deren

Maya Deren - The Very Eye of Night (1958)

They Shoot Pictures, Don't They? is dedicated to the art of motion picture film-making and most specifically to that one particular individual calling the shots from behind the camera - the film director.

Richard Brody reviews the book “Maya Deren: Choreographed for Camera,” by Mark Alice Durant, about the life of the independent, experimental filmmaker Maya Deren.

“Myth is the facts of the mind made manifest in a fiction of matter.” Happy Birthday, Maya Deren. Avant-garde filmmaker, dancer, writer, and cat-lover 🐈‍⬛

maya deren~The task of cinema or any other art form is not to translate hidden messages of the unconscious soul into art but to experiment with the effects contemporary technical devices have on nerves, minds, or souls.

MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON by Maya Deren & Alexander Hammid ‘I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick’ Let’s face it, Surrealist Cinema is on the whole a fairly m…

From Maya Deren’s never-completed Witch’s Cradle (with Marcel Duchamp)

“I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick.” Maya Deren. Born on this day in 1917.