Research Catalog
In the mirror of Maya Deren
- Title
- In the mirror of Maya Deren [videorecording] / Navigator Film in coproduction with Dschoint Ventschr and TAG/Traum presents ; producer, Johannes Rosenberger ; conceived and directed by Martina Kubláček.
- Publication
- [United States] : Zeitgeist Video, 2004.
Items in the Library & Off-site
Filter by
2 Items
Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Use in library | *MGZIDVD 5-8308 [DVD] | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Performing Arts Research Collections to submit a request in person. | Moving image | Use in library | *MGZIDVD 5-8308 [Notes] | Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Description
- 1 videodisc (ca. 103 min.) : sd., col. and b&w; 4 3/4 in.
- Summary
- Interweaves excerpts from some of Maya Deren's films with archival footage and commentary by acolytes and contemporaries, such as Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas. Includes excerpts from the films: At land, Ritual in transfigured time, and Meshes of the afternoon.
- Alternative Title
- Water for Maya.
- Ensemble for somnambulists.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Dance.
- Video.
- Filmed dance.
- Filmed performances.
- Note
- Original production: c2001.
- Includes: "Water for Maya" (c2000; 5 min.) hand-painted film by Stan Brakhage that is a tribute to Deren; two rare film "fragments": outtakes from "Witch's cradle" (c1943) an unfinished Deren film starring Marcel Duchamp; and "Ensemble for somnambulists" (c1951; 7 min.), an unpublished choreographic work; Maya Deren filmography.
- Additional DVD booklet located in Dance Division's *MGZIDVD 5-8308 [Notes].
- Credits (note)
- Cinematography, Wolfgang Lehner ; editor, Henry Hills ; original music, John Zorn.
- System Details (note)
- DVD.
- Language (note)
- Closed-captioned.
- Contents
- Chapter Selections. 1. Holy Grail of cinema -- 2. Meshes of the Afternoon -- 3. At Land -- 4. Ahead of her time -- 5. Ritual & choreography -- 6. Haiti -- 7. Meditation on Violence -- 8. A burning person -- 9. Teiji Ito -- 10. The Very Eye of Night -- 11. Dying of anger -- 12. End credits.
- Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-8308
- OCLC
- 56058619
- Title
- In the mirror of Maya Deren [videorecording] / Navigator Film in coproduction with Dschoint Ventschr and TAG/Traum presents ; producer, Johannes Rosenberger ; conceived and directed by Martina Kubláček.
- Imprint
- [United States] : Zeitgeist Video, 2004.
- Type of Content
- two-dimensional moving image
- Type of Medium
- video
- Type of Carrier
- videodisc
- System Details
- DVD.
- Credits
- Cinematography, Wolfgang Lehner ; editor, Henry Hills ; original music, John Zorn.
- Language
- Closed-captioned.
- Added Author
- Kudláček, Martina, film director.Kudláček, Martina, conceptor.Deren, Maya, filmmaker.Brakhage, Stan, designer.Rosenberger, Johannes, 1965- producer.Zeitgeist Films.
- Added Title
- Water for Maya.Ensemble for somnambulists.
- Publisher No.
- Z1055 Zeitgeist Video
- Research Call Number
- *MGZIDVD 5-8308