MESHES OF THE AFTERNOON
(1943, 14 min, 16mm, b&w. Co-directed by Alexander Hammid. Music by Teiji Ito from 1959.)

AT LAND
(1944, 15 min, 16mm, b&w, silent. Photographed by Hella Heyman and Alexander Hammid.)

A STUDY IN CHOREOGRAPHY FOR CAMERA
(1945, 3 min, 16mm, b&w, silent. By Maya Deren and Talley Beatty.)

RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME
(1946, 15 min, 16mm, b&w, silent. Choreographic collaboration with Frank Westbrook. Photographed by Hella Heyman. With Rita Christiani and Frank Westbrook.)

“MESHES is, one might say, almost expressionist; it externalizes an inner world to the point where it is confounded with the external one. AT LAND has little to do with the inner world of the protagonist, it externalizes the hidden dynamics of the external world, and here the drama results from the activity of the external world. It is as if I had moved from a concern with the life of a fish, to a concern with the sea which accounts for the character of the fish and its life. And RITUAL pulls back even further, to a point of view from which the external world itself is but an element in an entire structure and scheme of metamorphosis: the sea itself changes because of the larger changes of the earth. RITUAL is about the nature and process of change.” –Maya Deren

Total running time: ca. 55 min.