Teiji Ito Movies

  • 1943
    Meshes of the Afternoon

    Meshes of the Afternoon

    Meshes of the Afternoon

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    A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete...

    Meshes of the Afternoon
  • 1958
    The Very Eye of Night

    The Very Eye of Night

    The Very Eye of Night

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    Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate...

    The Very Eye of Night
  • 2002
    In the Mirror of Maya Deren

    In the Mirror of Maya Deren

    In the Mirror of Maya Deren

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    Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.

    In the Mirror of Maya Deren
  • 1949
    Meditation on Violence

    Meditation on Violence

    Meditation on Violence

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    Chao-Li Chi shadow boxes indoors and practices with a sword outdoors. Theoretically, the film describes in a single continuous movement three degrees...

    Meditation on Violence
  • 1968
    The Virgin President

    The Virgin President

    The Virgin President

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    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...

    The Virgin President
  • 1961
    Arabesque for Kenneth Anger

    Arabesque for Kenneth Anger

    Arabesque for Kenneth Anger

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    Filmed at the Alhambra in Spain in just one day, according to Marie Menken. Arabesque for Kenneth Anger concentrates on visual details found in...

    Arabesque for Kenneth Anger
  • 1993
    Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti

    Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti

    Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti

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    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...

    Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
  • 1986
    Invocation: Maya Deren

    Invocation: Maya Deren

    Invocation: Maya Deren

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    Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts...

    Invocation: Maya Deren
  • 2012
    Maya Deren, Take Zero

    Maya Deren, Take Zero

    Maya Deren, Take Zero

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    This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren, and colleagues who knew her firsthand: Jean Rouch, Jonas Mekas, Alexander...

    Maya Deren, Take Zero
  • 1964
    Dionysus

    Dionysus

    Dionysus

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    In 1963 Boultenhouse wrote, produced, and directed Dionysius,which he described as a “free treatment of Euripides' The Bacchae.”It...

    Dionysus
  • 2023
    Vever (For Barbara)

    Vever (For Barbara)

    Vever (For Barbara)

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    Deborah Stratman brings past perspectives into the contemporary moment in a montage of unfinished film footage from artist Barbara Hammer with...

    Vever (For Barbara)
  • 1963
    The Dragon's Tears

    The Dragon's Tears

    The Dragon's Tears

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    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...

    The Dragon's Tears
  • 1960
    Lifelines

    Lifelines

    Lifelines

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    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...

    Lifelines
  • 1961
    Bagatelle for Willard Maas

    Bagatelle for Willard Maas

    Bagatelle for Willard Maas

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    "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...

    Bagatelle for Willard Maas
  • 2011
    Maya Deren's Sink

    Maya Deren's Sink

    Maya Deren's Sink

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    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...

    Maya Deren's Sink
  • 1962
    Moonplay

    Moonplay

    Moonplay

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    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...

    Moonplay
  • 1959
    Dwightiana

    Dwightiana

    Dwightiana

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    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...

    Dwightiana
  • 1959
    Henry James' Memories of Old New York

    Henry James' Memories of Old New York

    Henry James' Memories of Old New York

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    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...

    Henry James' Memories of Old New York