Maya Deren's main experience

Maya Delun (1965438+April 29th, 2007-196165438+10/3), born in Kiev, Ukraine, is an American director, screenwriter and producer.

1943 co-directed his first short film Lost in the Afternoon with Alexander Hammy. 1945, directed the short film "Camera Dance Practice". 1946 Self-directed and self-directed short film On Land. From 65438 to 0948, he was the director of the short film "Violent Meditation". 195 1 directed the short film Sleepwalker's Sleep. 1958, edited and directed the short film Eye of the Night.

196 1 year1year1October13rd, Maya Deren died at the age of 44.

Chinese name: Maya Deren.

Mbth: Maya Delun

Alias: Maya Deren, Mayer Darren

Nationality: USA

Constellation: Taurus

Place of birth: Kiev, Ukraine

Date of birth:1965438+April 29th, 2007.

Date of death:196110/October 13.

Occupation: director, screenwriter, producer

Representative works: confusion in the afternoon, camera dance practice, sleeping on land, sleepwalker, violent meditation.

Performance experience

1943 co-directed his first short film Lost in the Afternoon with Alexander Hammy. 1944, co-directed the documentary "The Private Life of Cats" with Alexander Hammy; In the same year, he directed the short film "The Witch's Skipping Game" starring marcel duchamp. 1945, he directed the short film "Camera Dance Exercise" starring Talley Beatty.

1946 Self-directed and performed short film On Land; In the same year, Maya held her first solo exhibition in a theater in Greenwich Village, showing three abandoned films, namely Lost in the Afternoon, On Land and Dancing with the Camera.

From 65438 to 0948, he directed the short play Meditation on Violence with the theme of Oriental Wushu. 195 1 year as the director of the short film Sleepwalker's Sleep. 1958, edited and directed the short film Eye of the Night.

Personal life

domestic

On April 29th, 2007, Maya Deren was born into a wealthy Jewish family in Kiev. Her father is a psychologist and her mother is an artist. 1922, because of supporting Trotskyism and Soviet anti-Semitism, the whole family moved to the United States and lived in new york. Maya was educated in the United States since she was a child, and received her bachelor's and master's degrees from new york University and Smith College.

mood

In the early 1940s, he followed African-American dancer Catherine Dunham to Los Angeles and met exiled Czech director Alexander Hammy. They fell in love and got married. Darren was renamed Maya at this time, played by Hamid, meaning "water". From 65438 to 0944, they settled in new york and rented an apartment in Greenwich Village, focusing on artistic creation.

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196 1 year1year1October13rd, Maya Deren died at the age of 44.

Main work

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Participate in short films

Personality assessment

Maya Deren's works boldly explore the possibility of formal expression of images, shatter the rational thinking logic established by the traditional film language system, and regard the author's perception as the main clue of the structure of a series of images. In content, she focuses on the subtle and close relationship between dream and reality, subconscious and sexual psychology, and space and time, echoing the philosophical thoughts of both sides at that time, which is the overlap and refraction of psychoanalysis and feminism in the field of experimental images. These two forces greatly influenced the development of American experimental films, formed a new pattern of experimental images that balanced Europe after World War II, and "further inspired later female film directors to examine the binary opposition between film theme and narrative with self-reflection consciousness" (film review).

For Maya Deren, video is her mother tongue, with familiar vocabulary and grammar. Maya regarded images as a flexible language to express abstract ideas, which greatly broadened the scope and possibility of images. She explores the unique expressive ability of film media for time and space, and from beginning to end, it is in a light and free way, not obscure and boring. She used images to eliminate the boundary between time and space, the distinction between reality and fiction, and images started inner memory and subconscious like spells. She connects the shots in two different spaces and creates the illusion that a coherent action is completed in these two spaces by editing. The real space was destroyed, and the concept of time and space in a movie was born. In On Land, Maya climbs a branch and rushes into a lively party. These two spaces are magically connected by climbing. In Ritual in Time Transition, the dancer jumps in the air, stops, time stands still, the dancer becomes a statue, and the past and the future meet at this point. In Lost in the Afternoon, through the choice of shooting angle and the use of slow motion, the space is alienated, and climbing a short flight of stairs becomes such a difficult and painful process. When she chased the mysterious characters on the path again and again, through editing, the road became so long that it would never run to the end, just like a nightmare (Mtime Time Online Review).