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 Witch's Cradle

Artist: Maya Deren
Production year: 1943
Duration: 00:00:00
Catalogued as: EXPERIMENTAL, FANTASY/VISIONARY, MEDIA/EDUCATION, AVANTGARDE/KINETIC, ANALOG FILMING, ABSTRACTION/PSYCHEDELIA

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The Witch's Cradle (1943), sometimes billed as Witches' Cradle, is an unfinished, silent, experimental short film written and directed by Maya Deren, featuring Marcel Duchamp, and filmed in Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery. The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several individuals, most notably an unnamed young woman (Pajorita Matta) and an elderly gentleman (Marcel Duchamp). The film

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