Beyond the Canon: 3 by Maya Deren + Mulholland Drive at BAM Sun, Jul 28, 2pm
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3 by Maya Deren
Dir. Maya Deren
RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME
1946, 15min, 16mm
AT LAND
1944, 15min, 16mm
MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON
1943, 14min, 16mm
Maya Deren, the godmother of the American avant-garde, created trance-state explorations of consciousness, movement, the body, and nature rooted in the dream logic of surrealism and awash in unforgettably uncanny images. From the time-and space-collapsing psychodrama of her forever influential debut MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON to the mesmerizing dance film RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME, these profoundly personal landmarks of experimental film showed that cinema could be a direct conduit to the unconscious mind.
GME distributes two DVD collections of Maya Deren’s films to the North American institutional market, MAYA DEREN: DANCE FILMS and MAYA DEREN: EXPERIMENTAL FILMS, which contains the three titles showing in this program at BAM.
MULHOLLAND DRIVE
Dir. David Lynch
With Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux
2001, 147min, DCP
Naomi Watts’ eager aspiring actress arrives in LA with stars in her eyes, but soon finds herself sucked into the nightmarish underbelly of the Hollyweird Dream Factory as she becomes entangled with an amnesiac femme fatale. Hitchcockian doubles, illusory identities, and surreal slips into the dark and disturbing abound in David Lynch’s neo-noir freak-out.