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Maya Deren's Sink

2011 · 30 min History Documentary
4.5 / 10 · TMDB

Maya Deren's Sink, a 30 minute experimental film, is an evocative tribute to the mother of avantgarde American film. The film calls forth the spirit of one who was larger than life as recounted by those who knew her. Teiji Ito's family, Carolee Schneemann and Judith Malvina, float through the homes recalling in tiny bits and pieces words of Deren's architectural and personal interior space. Clips from Maya Deren's films are projected back into the spaces where they were originally filmed appearing on the floorboard, furniture, and in the bowl of her former sink. Fluid light projections of intimate space provide an elusive agency for a filmmaker most of us will never know as film with its imaginary nature evokes a former time and space.

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Year 2011
Country United States of America
Genre History, Documentary
Director Barbara Hammer
Runtime 30 min.
Rating TMDB: 4.5/10 (2 votes)

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The film constructs a meditative ghost-portrait, relying on fragmented recollections and projections of Deren's work onto the very walls of her homes. It explores not a biography, but the very substance of memory and creative legacy dissolved into space.

What lingers after viewing is a hypnotic, nearly tactile experience where past and present, personal and artistic, merge into a single poetic stream. — MovieFinder Editorial

Director: Barbara Hammer

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