MAYA DEREN / INCOMPLETE CONTROL

Maya Deren (1917--1961) was a Russian-born American filmmaker, theorist, poet, and photographer working at the forefront of the Amer ican avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Influenced by Jean Cocteau and Marcel Duchamp, she is best known for her seminal film Meshe s of the Afternoon (1943), a dream-like experiment with time and symbol, looped narrative and provocative imagery, setting the stage for the twentieth-century's groundbreaking aesthetic movements and films.Maya Deren assesses both the filmmaker's completed work an d her nu...[Read more]