A woman washes up on a beach and embarks on a surreal journey, encountering others and fragmented versions of herself in a quest for identity.
Direction
Deren invented indie filmmaking on sheer will and $0 budget.
Cinematography
Beach-to-table tracking shot is pure visual sorcery.
Editing
Match cuts that bend space-time before it was cool.
Director
Maya Deren
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Deren essentially created American avant-garde cinema from scratch, screening this in people's living rooms when galleries laughed her off.
That random chess player? Composer John Cage, four years before his famous silent piece 4'33''. The silence between them speaks volumes.
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