Teiji Ito Movies
- 1943
Meshes of the Afternoon
Meshes of the Afternoon7.6881943HD
A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete...
- 1986
Invocation: Maya Deren
Invocation: Maya Deren51986HD
Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts...
- 1949
Meditation on Violence
Meditation on Violence5.5671949HD
Chao-Li Chi shadow boxes indoors and practices with a sword outdoors. Theoretically, the film describes in a single continuous movement three degrees...
- 2002
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
In the Mirror of Maya Deren7.42002HD
Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
- 1958
The Very Eye of Night
The Very Eye of Night5.91958HD
Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate...
- 2011
Maya Deren's Sink
Maya Deren's Sink4.52011HD
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...
- 1993
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti6.11993HD
This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her years in Haiti (1947-1951); she never edited the...
- 1961
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger
Arabesque for Kenneth Anger5.71961HD
Filmed at the Alhambra in Spain in just one day, according to Marie Menken. Arabesque for Kenneth Anger concentrates on visual details found in...
- 1960
Lifelines
Lifelines51960HD
A combination of animated line drawings with live photography of a nude model. A play on the title (living lines, life model, procreation and hand...
- 2023
Vever (For Barbara)
Vever (For Barbara)02023HD
Deborah Stratman brings past perspectives into the contemporary moment in a montage of unfinished film footage from artist Barbara Hammer with...
- 1968
The Virgin President
The Virgin President71968HD
The President of the U.S. is suceeded by his naive, wide-eyed son, and his advisors try to take advantage of the situation by planning to drop an...
- 1963
The Dragon's Tears
The Dragon's Tears01963HD
John Korty's animated adaptation of Hirosuke Hamada's story (Ryu no Me no Namida) of a little boy's fearless act of inviting a dragon to his birthday...
- 2012
Maya Deren, Take Zero
Maya Deren, Take Zero52012HD
This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren, and colleagues who knew her firsthand: Jean Rouch, Jonas Mekas, Alexander...
- 1961
Bagatelle for Willard Maas
Bagatelle for Willard Maas01961HD
"This is a new version of the now famous film made for her husband, the poet and film-maker. Returning from the Brussels fair, she shot this at...
- 1962
Moonplay
Moonplay01962HD
An expansion upon an idea put forward in Marie Menken's film Notebook; single-frame footage of the moon shot on various nights, blinking and darting...
- 1964
Dionysus
Dionysus61964HD
In 1963 Boultenhouse wrote, produced, and directed Dionysius,which he described as a “free treatment of Euripides' The Bacchae.”It...
- 1959
Dwightiana
Dwightiana01959HD
Menken's 16mm, stop-motion tribute to the art of Dwight Ripley was filmed in 1959 in his apartment at 416 East Fifty-eighth Street in New York. She...
- 1959
Henry James' Memories of Old New York
Henry James' Memories of Old New York01959HD
Because of the film's choices of text and illustration were made so well – and because the natural anatomy of memory is so like that of cinema...