Maya Deren from the 1944 experimental short At Land.
Photographer
Hella Heyman
Title
Maya Deren from the 1944 experimental short At Land.
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Description
English: Maya Deren from the 1944 experimental short At Land.
Summary
At Land (1944) is a 15-minute silent experimental film written, directed by, and starring Maya Deren. It has a dream-like narrative in which a woman, played by Deren, is washed up on a beach and goes on a strange journey encountering other people and other versions of herself. Deren once said that the film is about the struggle to maintain one's personal identity.
The film At Land was originally published in 1944 without a copyright notice and thus entered the public domain upon publication.
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The author died in 1961, so this work is also in the public domain in jurisdictions where the copyright term is the author's life plus 60 years or less. This work may also be in the public domain in countries and areas with longer native copyright terms that apply the rule of the shorter term to foreign works.