{"id":24230,"date":"2020-12-07T22:25:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-08T06:25:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/?p=24230"},"modified":"2020-12-07T22:25:43","modified_gmt":"2020-12-08T06:25:43","slug":"review-maya-deren-collection-bluray","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/moviemansguide.com\/main\/2020\/12\/review-maya-deren-collection-bluray\/","title":{"rendered":"The Maya Deren Collection Blu-ray Review"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Maya Deren Collection<\/em><\/strong> release from Kino Classics and Re:Voir has eight films from the prolific independent filmmaker and includes new 2K restorations alongside a good selection of bonus features.<\/p>\n

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The Maya Deren Collection<\/span>
\n(1943-1977)<\/span>
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Genre(s): <\/strong>Special Interest<\/span>
\nKino Lorber | NR \u2013 208 min. \u2013 $34.95 | February 25, 2020<\/span><\/p>\n

Date Published:<\/strong> 12\/07\/2020 | Author:<\/strong> The Movieman<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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MOVIE INFO:
\n<\/u><\/strong>Director: <\/strong>Maya Deren
\nWriter(s): <\/strong>Various
\nCast: <\/strong>Various<\/span><\/p>\n
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DISC INFO:
\n<\/u><\/strong>Features: <\/strong>Audio Commentaries, Outtakes
\nSlip Cover: <\/strong>No
\nDigital Copy: <\/strong>No
\nFormats Included: <\/strong>Blu-ray
\nNumber of Discs: <\/strong>1<\/span><\/p>\n
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Audio: <\/strong>English (DTS-HD MA 2.0 Mono)
\nVideo: <\/strong>1080p\/Full Frame 1.33
\nSubtitles: <\/strong>English SDH
\nDisc Size: <\/strong>48.12 GB
\nTotal Bitrate: <\/strong>31.66 Mbps
\nCodecs: <\/strong>MPEG-4 AVC
\nRegion(s): <\/strong>A<\/span><\/p>\n
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THE MOVIE<\/span><\/h3>\n
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Maya Deren is one of the most important American experimental filmmakers of all time. Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Her most famous is Meshes of the Afternoon<\/em> (1943), co-directed with Alexander Hammid, which depicts a surrealist slippage in reality as a woman\u2019s home becomes a shifting landscape of beauty and menace. At Land<\/em> (1944) is another pscyhogeographical journey where Deren washes up on a beach and encounters a multiplicity of selves.<\/p>\n

Also included are four 1940s dance films (A Study in Choreography for Camera<\/em>, Ritual in Transfigured Time<\/em>, Meditation on Violence<\/em>, and The Very Eye of Night<\/em>) in which, as Deren wrote, \u201cI have attempted to place a dancer in limitless, cinemato-graphic space.\u201d She and Hammid put felines through a similarly intimate process in The Private Life of a Cat<\/em> (1946), which foresaw the future of cat videos. A different exploration of movement occurs in Divine Horseman<\/em> (1947-1954, 1977), a remarkable hour-long montage of footage that Deren shot of Haitian Voodoo ceremonies. The history of avant-garde film is unthinkable without her.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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SPECIAL FEATURES \u2013 3.5\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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This release comes with an essay booklet<\/strong> and the cover art is reversible.<\/p>\n

Audio Commentaries:<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n

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  • Divine Horsemen<\/em>, Meditation on Violence<\/em> and Ritual<\/em> by film scholar Moira Jean Sullivan<\/li>\n
  • At Land<\/em>, Meshes of the Afternoon<\/em>, and The Very Eye of Night<\/em> by film scholar Thomas Beard<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

    Audio Outtakes (13:07\/13:22)<\/u><\/strong> from the original soundtrack recording sessions with Teiji Ito on Meshes of the Afternoon<\/em> and The Very Eye of Night<\/em>.<\/p>\n

    Invocation: Maya Deren<\/em> (55:26)<\/u><\/strong> \u2013 1987 documentary about the director and artist, narrated by Helen Mirren.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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    VIDEO \u2013 4.5\/5, AUDIO \u2013 3.5\/5<\/strong><\/span><\/h3>\n
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    Each of the 8 movies have received new 2K restorations by Kino Classics and Re: Voir, all presented in their original 1.33 full frame aspect ratio and 1080p high-definition transfers culled from the printing negatives with the exceptions of Divine Horsemen<\/em> and The Private Life of a Cat<\/em> (1977 assembly and 16mm print respectively). For the most part, and these black and white features, do show some film damage (according to the notes, there was some frame-by-frame clean-up, however detail is still pretty good and black levels appear well balanced.<\/p>\n

    Meshes of the Afternoon<\/em><\/strong>, The Private Life of a Cat<\/em><\/strong>, Meditation on Violence<\/em><\/strong>, The Very Eye of Night<\/em><\/strong> and Divine Horsemen<\/em><\/strong> received DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0 Mono tracks while the rest (At Land<\/em><\/strong>, A Study in Choreography for Camera<\/em><\/strong> and Ritual in Transfigured Time<\/em><\/strong>) are all intentionally silent. The ones with audio, which is primarily music, does have some hissing but given the budget and age of these short films are still respectable.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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