A Study in Choreography for Camera

A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945)

October 17th, 19450h 2min

Music
59%

Overview

Maya Deren’s shortest, two-minute A Study in Choreography for Camera seems like an exercise piece to capture a dancer’s movement on celluloid, which later on developed into her masterpieces such as Ritual in Transfigured Time and Meditation on Violence.


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