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    Directed by Maya Deren • 1945 • United States
    Starring Talley Beatty

    Filmmaker Maya Deren collapses the boundaries of space and time as dancer Talley Beatty leaps miraculously through a series of environments, from a forest to a sculpture-filled museum.

  • Ritual in Transfigured Time

    Directed by Maya Deren • 1946 • United States
    Starring Maya Deren, Anaïs Nin, Frank Westbrook

    The most influential of the series of dance films made by pioneering avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME combines intricate choreography with time-distorting cinematic effects ...

  • The Private Life of a Cat

    Directed by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid • 1946 • United States

    The original cat video, this experimental documentary captures the feline experience through the eyes of two cats raising a litter of newborn kittens.