31/12/2016

Maya Deren Revived






The music video is a  great way to introduce silent cinema to younger generations.  Just take a look at and listen to the wonderful song by Hope Sandoval and The Warm Inventions “Let me get there”.


The video was created by Ben Smith at XLVI, who says:


A creepy, dreamlike music video for Hope Sandoval and the Warm Inventions' "Let Me Get There", featuring  Kurt Vile. Incorporating a series of stylized clay heads and inspired by the visual aesthetic of Maya Deren, the video is a slow and somber companion to the song.

XLVI 

There is a longer, unofficial version of the song on YouTube with just over seven minutes of the film “At Land”,  directed by Maya Deren in 1941.



 


 At Land (1944) is a 15-minute silent experimental film written, directed by, and starring Maya Deren. It has a dream-like narrative in which a woman, played by Deren, is washed up on a beach and goes on a strange journey encountering other people and other versions of herself. Deren once said that the film is about the struggle to maintain one's personal identity.(Wikipedia)

The whole film is available on YouTube.









More on Maya Deren at the Maya DerenForum



28/12/2016

Bram van Velde, par Jean Michel Meurice, 1964, (version integrale)



'Non, je n'ai rien fait.  J'ai donc intensement travaillé'

Today,  35 years ago,  Bram van Velde died on a chair in the kitchen of his home in Grimaud (France).












Youtube

25/12/2016

La Grande Sortie




    La Grande Sortie  by the American artist Alex Prager was commissioned by the Paris Opera Ballet  and filmed in the Opera Bastille Theater, starring French ballet star Émilie Cozette with a supporting cast of retired dancers and teachers from the ballet company.










Seeing a horror movie through the reactions of its spectators.


 Alex Prager website