The Brooklyn Rail and the Film-Makers' Cooperative Screen Five Maya Deren Films for Labor Day

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The Brooklyn Rail and the Film-Makers' Cooperative Screen Five Maya Deren Films for Labor Day

Today, Labor Day, The Brooklyn Rail and the Film-Makers’ Cooperative have made five essential films by the Mother of American Avant-Garde Cinema, the only and only Maya Deren, available to view online, for free, for 24 hours! GME is proud to distribute these five Deren titles — 1943’s MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON, 1944’s AT LAND, 1945’s A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR THE CAMERA, 1946’s RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME, and 1948’s MEDITATION ON VIOLENCE — to universities in the United States and Canada as both DVDs and DVD/DSL bundles.

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Beyond the Canon: 3 by Maya Deren + Mulholland Drive at BAM Sun, Jul 28, 2pm

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Beyond the Canon: 3 by Maya Deren + Mulholland Drive at BAM Sun, Jul 28, 2pm

Maya Deren, the godmother of the American avant-garde, created trance-state explorations of consciousness, movement, the body, and nature rooted in the dream logic of surrealism and awash in unforgettably uncanny images. From the time-and space-collapsing psychodrama of her forever influential debut MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON to the mesmerizing dance film RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME, these profoundly personal landmarks of experimental film showed that cinema could be a direct conduit to the unconscious mind. Plus David Lynch’s neo-noir freak-out MULHOLLAND DRIVE.

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