A Study in Choreography for Camera

Oct 17, 1945

0h 2m

★ 5.9

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.

Genres

Music

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Cast

Dancer

Talley Beatty

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