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Artist:	DEREN, MAYA
Title:	Experimental Films (1943-1959)
Label:	MYSTIC FIRE VIDEO
Format:	DVD
Price:	$29.00
Catalog #:	MFV 7649DVD

"From the early 1940's until her death in 1961, Maya Deren evoked and exemplified the American avant-garde movement virtually by herself. Her first film, Meshes Of The Afternoon, set the tone for the decade and linked the movement to the older European avant-garde films of Cocteau and Bunuel." -- Cecil Starr, The New York Times. 'Intensely personal, symbolic and surreal films that reveal her deepest, darkest fantasies. She's Fellini and Bergman wrapped in one gloriously possessed body. Watching these films can change forever your concept of what cinema can be.' -- L.A. Weekly. Contents: Meshes Of The Afternoon, At Land, A Study In Choreography For Camera, Ritual In Transfigured Time, Meditation On Violence, The Very Eye Of Night. DVD edition. B/W. 76 Minutes.

Artist:	DEREN, MAYA
Title:	Divine Horsemen - The Living Gods of Haiti
Label:	MYSTIC FIRE VIDEO
Format:	DVD
Price:	$29.00
Catalog #:	MFV 76501DVD

"Maya Deren takes us on a journey into the fascinating world of the Voudoun religion, whose devotees commune with the cosmic powers through invocation, offerings, song and dance. The Voudoun pantheon of deities, or loa, is witnessed as being living gods and goddesses, actually taking possession of their devotees. The soundtrack conveys the incantatory power of the ritual drumming and singing. 'Maya Deren first went to Haiti as an artist... but the manifestations of rapture that seized her, and transported her beyond the bounds of any art she had ever known. She was open to the messages of that speechless deep, which is, indeed, the wellspring of the mysteries.' -- Joseph Campbell. 52 minutes, black & white, NTSC format. Filmed by Maya Deren during 1947-51, edited posthumously by Teji and Cherel Ito; previously available on VHS and now finally transferred to DVD!

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