Screenplay: Maya Deren

Direction Maya Deren · Alexander Hammid

Cast Maya Deren · Alexander Hammid

Plot Meshes of the Afternoon is one of the most influential works in American experimental cinema. A non-narrative work, it has been identified as a key example of the "trance film,"...

Direction Maya Deren

Cast Maya Deren · John Cage · Alexander Hammid · Hella Heyman

Plot Directed, written and starring Maya Deren. A dream-like narrative in which a woman is washed up on a beach and goes on a strange journey encountering other people and other...

Direction Maya Deren

Cast Rita Christiani · Maya Deren · Anaïs Nin · Frank Westbrook

Plot A social event choreographed in the manner of a dance, illuminated by concepts drawn from Greek legend.

Direction Deborah Stratman

Cast Barbara Hammer

Plot A cross-generational binding of three filmmakers seeking alternative possibilities to the power structures they are inherently part of. Each woman extends her reach to a subject she is outside of....

Direction Cherel Ito · Maya Deren · Teiji Ito

Cast John Genke · Joan Pape

Direction Maya Deren

Cast Talley Beatty

Direction Maya Deren

Cast Don Freisinger · Richard Sandifer · Patricia Ferrier · Bud Bready

Plot Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield...

Direction Maya Deren

Cast Marcel Duchamp · Pajorita Matta

Direction Maya Deren

Cast Chao Li Chi

Direction Maya Deren

Cast Cynthia Barret · Terry Chapman · Frank Ionson · Brian MacDonald