By P. Adams Sitney
Critics hailed past variations of Visionary Film because the so much entire paintings written at the fascinating, frequently difficult, and continuously arguable style of yankee avant-garde movie. This publication has remained general textual content on American avant-garde movie because the booklet of its first variation in 1974. Now P. Adams Sitney has once more revised and up-to-date this vintage paintings, restoring a bankruptcy at the movies of Gregory J. Markopoulos and bringing his dialogue of the primary genres and significant filmmakers as much as the yr 2000.
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12 Here is the first clear hint of the form by which the architectonic or mythopoeic film would emerge—through “staggered simultaneities”—for in the epic films of Markopoulous, Brakhage, and Harry Smith, the narrative pulse, which normally accents temporal development with climaxes and modulates its rhythm by creating scenic components, gives way to a sense of simultaneity, over which a broad narrative development may, or may not, occur. The ironies of Maya Deren’s later career are almost tragic. Before her death in 1961, she completed only one more film, The Very Eye of Night.
The principle of the editing, whereby every scene seems magically continuous with the previous, must have been planned in advance. For instance, as the protagonist crawls from the dead tree to the banquet table, we see her head disappear beyond the top of the frame in one scene, and in the next, now in the banquet hall, it rises from the bottom of the frame. As she pulls herself up into the hall, we see a final shot of the tree as her dangling leg passes through the top of the frame. This kind of montage must be provided for in advance, and, in fact, is the basis of the structure of this film.
This time Hella Heyman photographed and Maya Deren set up the compositions. The principle of the editing, whereby every scene seems magically continuous with the previous, must have been planned in advance. For instance, as the protagonist crawls from the dead tree to the banquet table, we see her head disappear beyond the top of the frame in one scene, and in the next, now in the banquet hall, it rises from the bottom of the frame. As she pulls herself up into the hall, we see a final shot of the tree as her dangling leg passes through the top of the frame.