Maya Deren - Experimental Films (not a pirate copy)

The collected shorts of Maya Deren the "Mother of the trance film" who worked completely outside the commercial film industry and made her own inner experience the center of her films. Maya Deren evoked and exemplified the American avant-garde movement. With her intensely personal and symbolic films, she inspired a generation of artists. This is an enhanced edition on DVD with many special features and previously unreleased extras. Includes the classic works At Land, Meshes of the Afternoon, Ritual in Transfigured Time, the very eye of night, meditation on violence. “From the early 1940’s until her death in 1961, Maya Deren evoked and exemplified the American avant-garde movement virtually by herself. Her first film, MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON, set the tone for the decade and linked the movement to the older European avant-garde films of Cocteau and Buñuel.” 
- Cecile Starr, The New York Times This is a genuine and authorised release and not a dodgy chinese rip off copy. Threshold Studios aims to bring you a wide range of independent digital art, guerrilla shorts, avant garde classics and features from around the world. Grassroots DV and film production has reached an unprecedented scale. Festivals and informal club screenings reveal a groundswell of interest in alternatives to mainstream movies. The form is changing, film and video, digital art crossing over boundaries into club visuals and art installations. DVDs of independent movies and art film beyond the mainstream are now available online directly from the artists or from tiny labels dedicated to work from the edge. The archive of work by past directors from the alternative histories of the cinema and the avant garde is now more accessible than ever it was before. The work of contemporary guerrilla film makers is reaching wider audiences through their access to domestic DV cameras, computer editing and DVD authoring software. Threshold Studios produce CD ROMS and DVDs of work by digital artists working in sound, single screen film and video, installation and on the web.  We commission five short films a year from Moving Image Artists, available here in our ebay shop on the Critical Mass DVD series. We also aim to stock a growing range of interesting work by other people from all over the world. We hope this work excites and inspires you. We want to see an explosion of experimental work and new ideas from those in the margins of the art, film and TV industry.; Buying from us allows us to reinvest the money in further commissions, promote new talent and fresh visions on CD and DVD to the rest of the world. We are always interested to hear from new directors and artists working in the experimental and avant garde. avant garde art film brakhage kenneth anger andy warhol kerouac warp films ninja tune touch ash international staalplaat mekas kotting digital shorts dance film onedotzero brit art cabaret voltaire tg alternative culture occulture maya deren video feedback vj cult digital art nekes experimental ambient bunuel richter dali leger artaud dulac nik zedd linklater bfi underground emin hirst wearing anchor bay jodorowsky polanski animation quay svankmeyer, guerilla film makers, short film, art video, short movies auter polanski, tarantino, von trier, bunuel, spike jonze, chris cunningham, anger, brakhage, deren, latham, kotting, jarman, onedotzero, lux, warp, raindance surrealist, black & afro Caribbean cinema, animation, manga