Meshes Of The Afternoon kinda blew my mind. Need to watch it again. Lynch definitely owes her a buck or two.

...or three, or a few million. Very Not Crap. At Land and Meditation on Violence are as good as Meshes of the Afternoon. I haven't seen the one on Haitian voodoo but would like to.

Totally out of the dark I borrowed from a friend a Maya Deren DVD with all the above mentioned films, plus more, I had no idea who she was. Looks like I'm in for a treat.

Bernardo wrote:Totally out of the dark I borrowed from a friend a Maya Deren DVD with all the above mentioned films, plus more, I had no idea who she was. Looks like I'm in for a treat.

She came out of nowhere for me, too. A feminist, DIY filmmaker making very bizarre movies in the 1940s.

ctrl-s wrote:...or three, or a few million. Very Not Crap. At Land and Meditation on Violence are as good as Meshes of the Afternoon. I haven't seen the one on Haitian voodoo but would like to.

I didn't think it was anywhere near as good as those 3.

And those movies of interpretive dance were kinda boring, though admittedly well-lit.

I'd say she's an important filmmaker for Meshes alone.

Absolutely NOT CRAP.

Not Crap at all.

"I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick."

Shame her films have been removed from ubuweb. I should buy that DVD.

ERawk wrote:[...] a French woman whose name I can't recall. She dealt with gender subversion in the early 20th, namely 1920s). It was a photography exhibit [...]

Claude Cahun? Also Not Crap in any case.

houseboat wrote:Shame her films have been removed from ubuweb

Glad I downloaded those three shorter ones from there a few years back, then. I'll get the DVD anyway.

not crap. just saw the dvd a couple of months ago.

Bernardo wrote:Totally out of the dark I borrowed from a friend a Maya Deren DVD with all the above mentioned films, plus more, I had no idea who she was. Looks like I'm in for a treat.

yes, you are.