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The Very Eye of Night

Leaving June 30 • 15m

Directed by Maya Deren • 1955 • United States
Starring Don Freisinger, Richard Sandifer, Barbara Levin

Made in collaboration with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School, this experimental dance film unfolds in a floating cosmic realm, an expression of director Maya Deren’s desire to “place a dancer in limitless, cinemato-graphic space.”

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