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Title: Maya Deren At Land Pt.1
Added: Oct 2, 2007
Author: videosdaclarice
Duration: 7:30
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: 56
tigerboy1966 Says:
Jan 13, 2010 - It's Kate Bush's mom!
SeriousIlya Says:
Jan 18, 2010 - I am totally alone in my house, so I have no noise anywhere. This is great, I love silence
SilentxoxDeath Says:
Feb 7, 2010 - so mystic,powerfull,i like this movie.
vinceraptor Says:
Mar 23, 2010 - Wow beautifully done...
MillettiFilms Says:
Jun 28, 2010 - Beautiful! Deren has such an interesting and cinematic face. This film and Meshes have helped inspire me for my own surrealism work.
bleinfelder Says:
Jul 9, 2010 - where do I find the video of cats flushing a toilet? ha ha.
TangoNUMERO7 Says:
Aug 21, 2010 - now I know where the Blush beach/ water scene might have come from
DesgWarrtw Says:
Nov 24, 2010 - I can meet naughty women tonight mworld5.info
ZacariasNaima Says:
Dec 1, 2010 - Ready to night party and meet naughty women mworld5.info
NefariousGrime Says:
Dec 8, 2010 - OMG I have that same dress!
earinsound Says:
Dec 15, 2010 - At 5:20 is American Surrealist poet, Philip Lamantia at age 17. en(DOT)wikipediaDOTorg/wiki/Philip_Lamantia5:38 is anthropologist Gregory Bateson5:51 is composer John Cage6:00 is Deren's then-husband, Alexander HammidI can only imagine what they were talking about.DEREN was a GENIUS.
James1954May Says:
Dec 17, 2010 - I love the way people use the word "masterpiece" for what a film is not rather than for what it is.
James1954May Says:
Dec 17, 2010 - I love the way people use the word "masterpiece" for what a film is not rather than for what it is. Virtually anything that's not "hollywood" is fantastic, no matter how amateurish. By an amazing coincidence, people who can actually edit and do cinematography are never fine artists. Incompetence is a refuge for fine art, particularly in film and photography. In this sense, competence is stupid or showboating and incompetence ethical and intellectual. Banker evil student good is stale in 2010.
alphonse639 Says:
Feb 24, 2011 - Check out Lucid Who in the video response. Made it years ago but recently recut it. Was strongly influenced by this film and meshes of the afternoon. Enjoy!
Pouroushair Says:
Apr 9, 2011 - @James1954May Before you talkn about what is a masterpiece or what is not. Look at how many restrictions there are imposed upon films have in Hollywood to the point that Individualism is erased.
lamp5matt Says:
Jun 16, 2011 - @Aceticacidplease, just start with the wikipedia article and go as deep as you want. One assumption avate-garde films *don't* make is that there has to be a "conclusive" meaning in (from?) a work of art.
MsThirdphase Says:
Jun 21, 2011 - OMG, I haven't seen a Maya Deren film since my film classes 30 years ago. This is what inspired me to want to make movies. Stunning! Does anyone make film as good as this now? Where do I find it?
taliayu Says:
Sep 5, 2011 - Lasiren Labalen, chapeau m tombe dan la mer
cmatthews926 Says:
Oct 25, 2011 - wow, just watched this with Colin Stetson's "Clothed in the skin of the dead" playing. Pure coincidence, but it worked magically. Gotta love beautiful mistakes.
aairtrafficc Says:
Jan 8, 2012 - @Aceticacidplease the key to viewing avant garde films is to not focus on what it "means" or to try to make sense of it - because you will get incredibly frustrated by doing so. You just have to take it all in with a completely open mind without the intention of drawing some sort of conclusion. Also - Maya Deren was completely ahead of her time in regards to film editing - watch it again and pick up on her great editing techniques - it's really amazing!
Aceticacidplease Says:
Jan 8, 2012 - @aairtrafficc I can respect the film editing techniques she pioneered. Absolutely no problem with any of that. I guess I could credit my film class and the readings I was given with trying to force some sort of "story" into it if there isn't one. I don't like forced interpretations because they are subjective and it makes things like this seem... perhaps more pretentious than they were meant to be.
screenjunky Says:
Feb 11, 2012 - opening scene of Inception!
zaratrusta79 Says:
Jan 3, 2010 - besides being a visionary and a being of great determination she was fucking hot. and dying with 44 is a bless, not a tragedy.