Dance Film | Maya Deren camille lavaud Fondation pour les Arts et

Fondation pour les Arts et la Culture Nyon

THE VERY EYE OF NIGHT 1952-55

the police came along: that in itself didnʼt bother me much

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of the audio-visual and of the “theoretical” in an approach giving full expression to the term political

Dance Film | Maya Deren camille lavaud Fondation pour les Arts etFour short dance films by Maya Deren "In this film, I have attempted to place a dancer in a limitless, cinemato graphic space. Moreover, he shares, with the camera, a collaborative responsibility for the movements themselves. This is, in other words, a dance which can exist only on films The movement of the dancer creates a geography that never was. With a turn of the foot, he makes neighbors of distant places. Being a film ritual, it is achieved not