Maya Deren's Film Philosophy

Born April 29, 1917, this year would have been Maya Deren’s 100th birthday. In celebration of her contribution to experimental cinema, this video by Laura Ivins outlines some of the key principles informing Deren’s filmmaking.
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[@Orvulum]

Alexander Hammid is rarely mentioned, but he and Maya Deren were partners who co-wrote and co-directed the many amazing and impactful films now enjoyed by younger generations. Hammid performed the cinematography as well.

[@apu5624]

My thoughts exactly 💯

[@saintessa]

She's amazing, I agree with her theory

[@FeonaLeeJones]

This is the reason I’ve (post) scored her films with my music. Her sense of time and movement in film is incredible.

[@kzxpr]

Great video. I have never studied Deren in depth or read her essays, but there are a lot of things you point out which must have had great influence on Brakhage as well, especially amateurism and the hand-held camera. Thanks for bringing some light on where these ideas come from.

[@_j_k_w_]

Thank you for sharing your essay here on UA-cam so we can all learn from it. Much appreciated!

[@examman2381]

Thanks for highlighting these features of Deren's film philosophy. I really enjoyed it and feel the same way about feel.

[@Mill-Yun]

This channel is single-handedly saving me from my classical theory class. It summarizes the ideas really well into a short and concise way. Bless this channel lol

[@anyzuara]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

[@rajneessingh222]

Thanks Laura! looking forward to more.

[@realkabecio]

Awesome Video Laura! and great info on Maya Deren that i never knew about. Thank you! I agree with her theory also! and "At Land" is amazing. I am so happy to know of more of her works and her writings as well AND the

[@RinaSherman]

Maya Deren invented corporal cinéma, thinking with the body, closeness to the subject, and preceded the 'cinéma direct' and Direct Cinema movements that a few later used those precepts, detail her texts in my chapter of 'Dans le sillage de Jean Rouch' / Rina Sherman (Ed.), préface Jean-Claude Carrière, EMSH, 2018

[@2apocalypsex]

Great video I just got done watching Meshes of the Afternoon and I going to chek out more of her works.

[@vidithoro7175]

My film school professor asked us to research on Maya Beren. Hence, I am just hopping from videos to videos.

[@johnkelly4850]

Thanks, very cool. I got introduced to Maya Deren by my daughter who is a student at FIT, and now am obsessed with her. Thank you again.

[@nicomedessantiago6428]

Really eye opening video. Thank you so much.

[@jhavajoe3792]

Universal concepts till this day, but hate when an artist is so ahead of their time, they pay the price.
If only they had crowd sourcing during that era. Such passion!

[@ameliawyeth]

Seriously well done on this!!

[@tellitagain1998]

Great video essay! Thank you for sharing.

[@alsatch]

Fascinating. Thank you very much!

[@MilanCekic]

Thank you very much for sharing this video! Very interesting and informative for further studying.

[@reginaldwalters3265]

gracias, you have much assisted my own (stunted) artistic endeavours

[@stevenwolfnesbitt]

Loved this! Thank you!

[@martindennison9256]

Great intro to this artist, thank you ❤

[@jiandamonique]

Loved this critique

[@minkstole977]

this is amazing, thank you!

[@jootsy8886]

Nicely done. Thank you.

[@WilliamByronIs]

Thank you for this.

[@RobertSlover]

insightful and informative video well done.

[@shethewriter]

Good breakdown of her philosophy

[@NattyWylah]

thanks for sharing!

[@IslaRenzo]

Gracias por compartir, muy interesante!

[@roberttorres6693]

loved this

[@justin401]

Great video!

[@Realdutchstroller46]

Nice! Thanks for this.

[@Gammanoize]

Its now being shown in Het Arsenaal in Ede Wageningen

[@renegadetherapper]

Bravo!

[@Silvibook]

gracias !

[@edwardde5618]

thanks!

[@dionnedamen]

I loved this video! Does anybody know what the film is called where it has that inverted look? with the stars in the background? would really like to watch that

[@CineSolutions]

good essay. thx

[@arturbardavioara6718]

Nice. thamks!

[@deepzzzleep3575]

Great

[@PauloAveiro7]

Nice

[@averykral9654]

4:53 Is that Anaïs Nin?

[@susankennedy5739]

Yes, she was in Ritual in a Transfigured time. There were a number of artists of note in the party scene in that movie, they were Daren's friends in the 1940s.

[@way2muchNFO]

I wish I could have my phone what is amazing The world is never transfixed it’s the dance always. e

[@olsonbryce777]

Genius

[@maydom04]

She was smart.

[@icykusum]

vay be

[@user-op8pf6ve4w]

Здесь нету влияние чего-то более культурного, коммунистического чтоли...как это было в России... Те же Маргаритки например

[@idatoninato]

Thank you for sharing your knowledge!