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Bookmark this pageIn the Mirror of Maya Deren (2001)
Director: Martina Kudlácek
Movie review
From Time Out Film Guide
Wide ranging, authoritative and often beautiful documentary about the avant garde movie-maker who virtually created the US independent film scene. From her immigrant roots (b. Kiev 1917) to her death aged 44 from a cerebral haemorrhage, Deren was a tireless experimenter in both content and context, a spiritual parent to Jonas Mekas' archive and exhibition activities. According to Stan Brakhage, one of many film-making contributors , her poetic films were 'rituals in moving vision', just part of a portfolio that included pioneering research into Haitian voodoo. For Deren, as demonstrated here, art and life were intense and inseparable.Author: GE
Cast & crew
Director: Martina Kudlácek
Producer: Johannes Rosenberger
Cast: Stan Brakhage, Judith Malina, Jonas Mekas full cast
Genre(s): Documentaries
Duration: 103 mins
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