The Very Eye of the Night

Maya Deren

IndieLisboa 2022 • Silvestre Focus

USA, Experimental, 1959, 15′

A celestial choreography that tells us about the absolute liberation of references and narrative. Against a starry sky, figures (students at the Metropolitan Opera Ballet School in New York) show us the inner universe one enters when one falls asleep.

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