MOVIE #1,943 • SCORE 7/10 • 09.04.24
SERIES: MAYA DEREN DIRECTOR FOCUS
Six minutes survive of this other unfinished Maya Deren film from the middle of the 20th century. Here she’s playing with negative black and white and really fucking with the perspective in the edit. “It is sort of a preliminary sketch for her next film The Very Eye of Night.” So I’ll wait to watch that before I consider this any further.
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Ensemble for Somnambulists is a 1951 American unfinished experimental silent short. It was written, produced, and directed by Maya Deren. The film was made while Deren was teaching a workshop at the Toronto Film Society. Along with Deren the film was produced by M. Armour and D. Burritt and had cinematography by Graeme Ferguson and Bruce Parsons. The film stars Frank Ionson, Brian Macdonald, Hannah Winner, Cynthia Barrett and Terry Chapman. It was released on November 27, 1951.
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