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I absolutely love Maya Deren's films. I really wanted to pry into her brain reading this book on her film theory and ideas. Maybe it is the age that she lived in as a woman, maybe is the age I live in as a woman reading it, but I feel dissapointed in this book. She was unique and way ahead of her time and it seems that she felt it overwhelmingly in her daily life. Lot of her text is a justification of what she did not in her amazing work itself but in what others lack or did not understand. She brings up the freedom of the small scale film maker repetitively, almost as she wanted to convince herself that she is doing okay versus Hollywood. I was seeking a giant, a mentor but I found someone just as scared and insecure as the rest of us - and somehow that makes me love her work more.
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A fascinating collection of writings by someone who did not compromise on the idea of film as an art, as a form that did not necessarily need "story", and how story dominates everything we think film is now. I am especially struck by her positioning herself as "amateur" and how her claiming this nomenclature allows us to reevaluate our own positions as artists, how the advantages of this out way the loss of budget. She was and remains essential, and any artist working in any art form can learn something here.
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This item: Essential Deren: Collected Writings on Film
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