Meditation on Violence

Meditation on Violence

Maya Deren • United States • 1949 • A dazzling vision of dance

Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time, as well as a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, bringing all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. In the 1940s dance film Meditation on Violence, Deren blurs boundaries between violence and beauty.

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Meditation on Violence
  • Meditation on Violence

    Maya Deren • United States • 1949 • A dazzling vision of dance

    Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time, as well as a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, bringing all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and...