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A Study in Choreography for Camera

Leaving June 30 • 2m 36s

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.

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