Maya Deren Take Zero

Audience Score
50
Maya Deren Take Zero
DirectorsGerard GilJaime Ballada
NR 29 minHistory, Documentary
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Plot
This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren and colleagues who knew her firsthand Jean Rouch Jonas Mekas Alexander Hammid Cecile Starr etc Maya Deren 19171961 was an experimental filmmaker In the 1940s and 1950s she made several influential avantgarde films such as Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 Images from this and her other work are used in this documentary You can also hear her voice as well as accounts by contemporaries such as Jean Rouch and Jonas Mekas