
Silently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back.... (Full plot summary below)
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Silently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back.
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| User ReviewDerek AFavorite Maya Deren movie. And she's really pretty too. |
| User ReviewMara PMaya es la mejor directora de poemas, o la mejor poeta del cine... la más jeva, la más más... |
| User ReviewPrivate UI love this film. I was constantly struck by the amazing compositions of the shots. Again, a blend of dance and surrealism. I love the crawl up the banquet tabel. |
| User ReviewDimitris SA female persona,a glorious artist,a transparent human libido,Deren possesses the viewer by clutching her soul,testing her limits,illuminating her behavior.The Land of Cherishing. |
| User ReviewCam SDeren gives us a series of constantly fluctuating spaces in which the identity of the protagonist is the only constant, but even that is compromised when it's revealed that we may not have even been following one individual the whole time. Brilliant. |
| User ReviewEdgar CMy favorite short film. Really shows how you can use editing to create an interesting world with no budget. |
| User ReviewCharles PAt Land plays like a dream, where distractions become new tangents and goals become lost in a myriad of images. |
| User ReviewJustin SHow does one write about experimental film? Maya Deren's "At Land" is another striking, choreographed work, following her classic, "Meshes of the Afternoon". We have several Deren staples here: magnificent composition, dream-like movement of the figures and the camera, and a character (played by Deren herself in both films) who is either shifting time and space, or being drug through surreal variations. Fantastic imagery throughout, particularly the moving chess pieces that fall from the table down to the beach and are swept up in the tide. |
| User ReviewLiam PAnother dream of a movie, almost literally. Deren's ideas and style are endlessly interesting. |
| User Reviewsam cMaya Derens visuals and editing technique explore ideas very much ahead of their time. A truly unique experience, highly recommended. |