I'm writing this assignment on Maya Deren, which is who I chose to watch three films of.
The films I watched were:
- Meshes of the Afternoon
- At Land
- Ritual in Transfigured Time
While watching these movies the thing that was always in common for me that I noticed were:
- There was always a blank, strange sort of opening when it came to starting the film out. Some sort of bizarre act would occur.
- They were all in black and white.
- They all had very lovely soundtracks.
- Each film had a very dream-state trance-esque feel to the films.
- There was a lot of symbolism with the themes of these movies.
- They all had a woman as the star of the film.
- There was a lot of abstract symbols and characters in the films. (Character with a face for a mirror in Meshes of the Afternoon)
Her voice seems to always have a sort of dream-like quality to her movies, as well as trying to tell a story with some form of self expression or feelings about a certain way things are going in a relationship, or in life. She loves to use symbolism for these movies especially, adding to the dream-like quality that always occurs in these films.
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