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Re:Maya Deren, the symbol and champion of American experimen... by rurban on Monday February 27, 2023 @01:03AM (#34953536)
We had a couple of Maya Deren articles before.

Her best film IMHO is about her cat, it's on Youtube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqjQf_s7zUE

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Re:Maya Deren, the symbol and champion of American experimen... by flotzam on Monday February 27, 2023 @08:02AM (#34955895)
Go for the restored 29 minute version tho: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mh2CzXOqGT0
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Re:Maya Deren, the symbol and champion of American experimen... by leephillips on Monday February 27, 2023 @09:52AM (#34957065)
Why is she uncredited in the film?

Also, is there any way to turn of Youtube's execrable plastering of advertising over the last minute or so of a video?

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Re:Maya Deren, the symbol and champion of American experimen... by dfxm12 on Monday February 27, 2023 @10:12AM (#34957303)
I understand the YT description and wikipedia say she directed it in collaboration with Alexander Hammond, but I can't find any contemporary or scholarly source to confirm this.

Everything, including the Wikipedia source [0], points to her involvement as being the narration of a different version of this film, where she is credited. That version is linked in a sibling comment.

0 - https://web.archive.org/web/20130606075957/http://www.zeitge...

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Re:Maya Deren, the symbol and champion of American experimen... by leephillips on Monday February 27, 2023 @10:26AM (#34957465)
She contributed some words used in title cards in the second version of the film. There’s no evidence that she had any other involvement in either version.
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