Blogs about: Maya Deren
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Places: 1466 N Kings Road
View Larger Map If you’re quick (and rich, and ready to resettle) you can pick up one of the most illustrious settings in the history of experimental film: the house at 1466 N Kings Road in West… more →
Strange Flowers
voudou rhythm
wrote 5 hours ago: While we twiddle our thumbs in expectation of tomorrow’s new show, a couple of other programmi … more →
PoeTRY iS nOT...
wrote 1 week ago: “POetrY is NOt A tURning LooSE oF eMOTIOn, buT an ESCApe FrOM EMotioN; IT is NOT tHe EXPRESsio … more →
Maya Deren's Surreal Short Film, Ritual in Transfigured Time
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Bodies Without Organs at Hackney Picturehouse
wrote 3 weeks ago: Shirin Neshat: Turbulent (still) BODIES WITHOUT ORGANS 14th, 16th, 21st, 23rd May at 6.45 pm at Hack … more →
Maya Deren: A Study in Choreography For Camera
wrote 3 weeks ago: If you were studying or reading about the history of dance on camera, or dance for film, or screenda … more →
Meshes In The Afternoon
wrote 4 weeks ago: Deren is one of the great screen presences; with her billowing hair and lugubrious gaze, she incarna … more →
Cinematography: The Creative Use of Reality
wrote 1 month ago: “If cinema is to take place beside the others as a full-fledged art form, it must cease merely to re … more →
Satyajit Ray's foreword in Gaston Roberge's "Chitrabani: A Book on Film Appreciation"
wrote 1 month ago: Srinivas Krishnaswamy (a.k.a Srini), a cinephile and a friend of TCRC, brings us this rare foreword … more →
Walking on a Dream: Surrealist Film
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wrote 1 month ago: What is dream and what is reality? The Surrealists have been asking this question for decades, provo … more →
Maya Deren - Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
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Fabric in Film // Behind the Curtain
wrote 1 month ago: In the last post we saw how fabric in Meshes of the Afternoon said interesting stuff about dreams, h … more →
::::Stan Brakhage::Metaphors on Vision:::: [ book ]
wrote 1 month ago: Metaphors on Vision is a collection of writings by non-narrative film-maker Stan Brakhage particular … more →
Fabric in Film // Three Roses
wrote 1 month ago: I came across an installation by Peter Rose a year or so ago purely by chance. It starts with a blu … more →
Maya Deren - Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)
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70 Years Ago Today... "How to Make Your Own Movies on a Shoestring."
wrote 2 months ago: PM Daily, March 19, 1946 Words by Louise Levitas “How to Make Your Own Movies on a Shoestring … more →
Meshes of the Afternoon
wrote 2 months ago: Surrealist film from the early ’40s courtesy of director, writer, and actor Maya Deren. When y … more →
St. Ulrich and St. Afra as Agwe and Erzulie
wrote 2 months ago: St. Ulrich and St. Afra Sts. Ulrich and Afra by zoe blue Ink on Moleskine paper St. Afra (died 304) … more →
Deren to be different...
wrote 2 months ago: Coming to a blog near you! Blogging will commence shortly… … more →
A matter of kinetics
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wrote 3 months ago: I’ve mentioned in an earlier post that I intend to draw parallels between Slow Cinema and the … more →
