Maya Deren's Legacy: Women and Experimental Film
dal 14/5/2010 al 3/10/2010
Segnalato da
14/5/2010
Maya Deren's Legacy: Women and Experimental Film
The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York
A video installation and short-film programs examines Deren's legacy and work of a trio of women directors upon whom she had an indelible influence: Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer, and Su Friedrich.
Maya Deren (American, 1917-1961) was a visionary of American experimental film in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren, who formed the Creative Film Foundation to broaden support for experimental film, continued making and self-distributing her own films and lecturing and writing about avant-garde cinema theory until her untimely death at the age of forty-four. Her pioneering formal innovations -performing in front of the camera, using semiautobiographical content, and meshing literary, psychological, and ethnographic disciplines with rigorous technique-inspired future generations of experimental filmmakers. This exhibition, which consists of a video installation in the Theater Galleries and short-film programs in the theaters, examines Deren's legacy through both her own work and that of a trio of women directors upon whom she had an indelible influence: Carolee Schneemann, Barbara Hammer, and Su Friedrich. Curated by Sally Berger.