Women Make Waves International Film Festival

Program

At Land

Maya Deren 1944 b/w 15min
"In my At Land, it has been the technique by which the dynamic of the Odyssey is reversed and the protagonist, instead of undertaking the long voyage of search for adventure, finds instead that the universe itself has usurped the dynamic action which was once the prerogative of human will, and confronts her with a volatile and relentless metamorphosis in which her personal identity is the sole constancy."

Director

Maya Deren

One of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. DEREN was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, writer and photographer. Her 1943 film Meshes of the Afternoon remains her unassailable magnum opus, and is widely considered one of the most influential experimental films in American cinema.

Maya Deren

1977 Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti 神怪的騎馬人,活著的海地天神

1958 The Very Eve of Night 夜之眼

1948 Medifation on Violence 暴力省思

1946 Ritual in Transfigured Time 變形時間中的儀式

1945 A Study in Choreography for Camera 為攝影機所作之舞

1944 At Land 陸地上

1943 The Witch's Cradle 女巫的搖籃

1943 Meshes of the Afternoon 午後的羅網