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Maya Deren

At Land, 1944

Maya Deren was an avant-garde film-maker of the 1940’s and 1950’s. Like Cahun, Deren was interested in Surrealist art and notions of identity and self. At Land was written, directed and stars Deren. The film serves as a self-portrait for the multi-media artist and she is quoted as saying that the film is a “mythological voyage of the twentieth century,” in which “the problem of the individual as the sole continuous element, is to relate herself to a fluid, apparently incoherent, universe.”

•  6 April 2012  •  4 notes