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Ritual in Transfigured Time

Artist: Maya Deren
Production year: 1946
Duration: 00:00:00
Catalogued as: EXPERIMENTAL, BODY/DANCE, FANTASY/VISIONARY, NON NARRATIVE/TIME, AVANTGARDE/KINETIC, ANALOG FILMING

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By her fourth film, Deren discussed in An Anagram that she felt special attention should be given to unique possibilities of time and that the form should be ritualistic as a whole. Ritual in Transfigured Time began in August and was completed in 1946. It explored the fear of rejection and the freedom of expression in abandoning ritual, looking at the details as well as the bigger ideas of the nature and process of change.

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