maya deren
So Liam mailed me this link and I watched and fell so deep, so I mailed him back a link for “The Passion of Joan of Arc” (1928), because we forgot to watch it when he was here. “Meshes of the Afternoon” (1943), has minimal sound and I was listening to Patsy Cline, so the combination of her singing about some fella that she’d locked out because there were three smokes in the ashtray and this knock-knock-knock felt eerie and semi-voodoo. I think its something I am going to try, blending films and soundtracks together that should and shouldn’t fit. Maya Deren was a key figure in American avant-garde film amd the reason why I fell so deep for this film was the linear-nature of the story, but at the same time it felt like the story was going round in circles. I am fascinated by honest contradiction, dual qualities at work, images are repeated over and over (circle), and she (Deren) walks home and sleeps and dreams (linear). Also, its the woman that we have been talking about, she has that hair that we both adore, like Diane Keaton in “Interiors” and Mia Farrow today and the trousers…anyway enough
