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Title: Maya Deren At Land Pt.2
Added: Oct 2, 2007
Author: videosdaclarice
Duration: 7:23
Description:
Deren's second experimental film, At Land (1944), reinforces her interest in the juxtaposition of anachronistic spaces and introduces a critique of social rituals. This film begins by reversing the natural rhythm with images of waves breaking and descending back into the sea. Starring again, Deren is seen climbing up a dead tree trunk on the beach, magically emerging onto a table where a formal dinner party is in progress. This 'civilized' world ignores Deren as she crawls along their dinner table. By depicting herself as invisible to the diners, Deren highlights the myopia of the guests. The dinner sequence in At Land ends with an enchanted chess game. A pawn falls from the table and descends back into the dead wood on the beach, it falls over rocks, into the water and is washed away over the waterfalls. Chasing the pawn, Deren is restored to her original landscape. - Wendy Haslem
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Youtube Comments: 29
delikium Says:
Apr 8, 2008 - she got distracted and lost...and was sinkin....tillshe was pickin up bits of the earth tryin to find her a track and her path...and found other woman...who knew how to play the game.....and yet b themselves...0.o=sT_Thelp me pls....i really want to understand
delikium Says:
Apr 8, 2008 - couldn't *
drieaz Says:
Sep 29, 2008 - this was before she got involved with voodoo economics (voodoo lady-shakin that stick and drivin me crazy)
drieaz Says:
Sep 29, 2008 - her calves are drivin me crazy
drieaz Says:
Sep 29, 2008 - i just wanted to see her in the morning light at Sandover
drieaz Says:
Sep 29, 2008 - 5:19- she's found 'her mates'
FilmTraum9a Says:
Dec 23, 2008 - Sie war ein Genie!
kllsms Says:
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whizbang47 Says:
Jul 20, 2009 - Anybody have the precise location and date this was filmed? And thank you, daclarice.
manueleslava Says:
Aug 15, 2009 - Genial :)
ironpirites Says:
Oct 4, 2009 - Very interesting and intense artist. She's someone I would like to be with, marooned on and island for a week or two.
thedthree1 Says:
Dec 10, 2009 - The changing light at sandover
basfaratu Says:
Dec 22, 2009 - then stop fucking reading them.
basfaratu Says:
Jan 3, 2010 - The thing about Maya's films, Especially this one, is that they are not supposed to have any linking narrative structure. Just like Meshes, the film is supposed to evoke a dream like ambivalence that does not have a concrete meaning. Even more than Meshes the film goes out of its way to avoid a clear narrative. What you're supposed to take from the film is more or less the 'flow' of energy continued from shot to shot, rather than what its saying narratively speaking
basfaratu Says:
Jan 3, 2010 - I'm sorry if I sounded rude.
sitarnut Says:
Jan 8, 2010 - Right on Bro... just love the way you said it- I thought it, but couldn't say as well as you. Have you seen, "Last Year at Marienbad"? ...talk about flow and wonderful b & w..... Bless you for posting this Nectar, Clarice....
earinsound Says:
Jan 18, 2010 - @whizbang47Long Island, NY or Cape Cod, I think... 1944.
sugarandspice4815 Says:
Oct 12, 2010 - Maya Deren, as basferatu touched on in his/her interpretation, was a master of the use of "dream logic" in her movies. Most of the time, events progressed as they would in a dream.
milcho Says:
Dec 26, 2010 - In a trance... Fantastic...!
fakersfield Says:
Mar 31, 2011 - The chessboard on the beach reminds me of The Seventh Seal. Maya makes creative use of the cuts/transitions, eschewing a traditional narrative for dream logic. And if I may say so, she exudes a real onscreen presence.
delikium Says:
Apr 8, 2008 - idk if i understood this movie well:but its about woman...who are connected to the earth and are the earth itself (coz they bare children)...and she was straight out of nature and went into this masculine world where she was a strainger and she could really reach and understand them??