The Very Eye of Night

Maya Deren

Experimental film | Etats-Unis | 16 mm | 1.37 | b&w | mono | 1958 | 15' 00"
61 €

Screening Copy: digital

The Very Eye of Night is filmmaker Maya Deren's last completed film. Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield background. Their movements are accompanied by music scored for a small ensemble of woodwind and percussion. (source : imdb.com)

Credits

Director: Maya Deren Assistant Director: Barbara Stauffacher, Starr Harrison Editor: Maya Deren Original Music: Teji Ito Sound Designer: Bebe Barron, Louis Barron

Cast

Dancer: Phillip Salem, Rosemary williams, Richard Englund, Barbara Levin, Genaro Gomez, Bud Bready, Patricia Ferrier, Richard Sandifer, Don Freisinger

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