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  • Although links can be made between, particularly, her enactment of the "trance" film, which depicts a psycho-sexual quest, and later filmmakers, for whom this model was seminal, Deren is above all a Modernist filmmaker, concerned with the integrity of form and medium.

    GreenCine Daily: frieze. 106. 2007

  • Deren is a character in Merrill’s The Book of Ephraim (1976), the first book of the trilogy known as The Changing Light at Sandover (1982).

    Vitro Nasu » 2006 » July 2006

  • Deren is a character in Merrill’s The Book of Ephraim (1976), the first book of the trilogy known as The Changing Light at Sandover (1982).

    Ritual in Transfigured Time – Maya Deren (II) 2006

  • WHITE DARKNESS The term Maya Deren used to describe the state of possession that she experienced.

    The Serpent and the Rainbow Wade Davis 1985

  • As well as surveying her work, this month-long celebration includes an expanded cinema event in the Turbine Hall, as well as pieces by Hammer's friends, colleagues and admirers, the premiere of her new short devoted to Maya Deren and talks and discussions with the artist herself.

    This week's new film events 2012

  • While some American avant-garde filmmaking might fall under the Modernist rubric—the work of Maya Deren and Stan Brakhage, for instance—it is time-tested narratives, photogenic stars and pyrotechnical effects that have filled the seats.

    Making It New in the New World Steven Watson 2011

  • Also embedded in the portraits are mini-homages to Derek Jarman, Maya Deren, Jack Smith, and others.

    G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday" G. Roger Denson 2011

  • The offending plant was approved under the leadership of previous Party Secretary Xia Deren, who was a target of some of the slogans used in Sunday's protest.

    Dalian's People—and Power 2011

  • Also embedded in the portraits are mini-homages to Derek Jarman, Maya Deren, Jack Smith, and others.â¨Silver.

    G. Roger Denson: MoMA and AA Bronson Present "Queer Cinema: Today and Yesterday" G. Roger Denson 2011

  • While some American avant-garde filmmaking might fall under the Modernist rubric—the work of Maya Deren and Stan Brakhage, for instance—it is time-tested narratives, photogenic stars and pyrotechnical effects that have filled the seats.

    Making It New in the New World Steven Watson 2011

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