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Happy Chinese New Year February 7th! The Year of the Rat!
My real name Moira is derived from the Greek Fates- the Moirae : Clotho , or spinner of the thread of life, Lachesis , measurer, and Atropos cutter. I am an international cinéaste and love intelligent, artistic films made with creativity. I also am keenly interested in film theory and discussions about the operations within the language of film. Bring it on! Based in San Francisco, Stockholm and Paris. Am one of the world's leading experts on the work of filmmaker Maya Deren and have been invited to speak about her in Italy, France, Spain, Germany, and Sweden. I also make experimental films in the spirit of Deren's "personal film".I agree with Deren that a filmmaker has to make use of "the art instrument", camera and editing in order to create "something new". Maya is known and still inspires filmmakers today. How is that someone who worked in the non commercial short film genre continues to influence young filmmakers nearly 45 years after her death? The answer can be found by closely observing her innovating editing techniques and cinematography: jump cuts, double exposure, and creative uses of temporality through duration.
My website [mayaderen.org] is dedicated to this excellent filmmaker that has left a wonderful legacy to us.
Music is closely related to cinema because it moves and influences the mind, soul and emotions, as do dance and martial arts, my other passions. Art is the creative healing force of the universe and the most precious thing we have. During difficult times in the world the artist is hounded, no wonder that the arts are cut when the economy is down. It is not something we can do without, nor is it an expendable luxury. Its our life force and can not be blocked or we lose our soul.
Maya Deren was an artistic filmmaker that not only made ethnographic films such as shooting 18 000 ft of Haitian rituals and secular dances in the 1940's and 1950's but a film called "Meditation on Violence" (1947), a film on Shao-lin and Wu Tang martial arts.
She was married to Teiji Ito who played over a dozen musical instruments. Beset by financial difficulties through most of her career, she produced and distributed all her own movies, and never gave up her art. Her ashes were scattered at Mt Fuji by Teiji Ito after her death in 1961. See my reviews of her films on Maya Deren 2x, in Film International, promoting intellectual film culture since 1973.
Cinema, music, dance. That's my world and welcome to it!
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Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullman and Bibi Andersson, interview in 1965 by Nils Petter Sundgren for Swedish Television about "Persona" - a film he wanted to call "Cinematography". Other interviews on his plays such as Kung Lear , after he received the Oscar for Fanny and ALexander and the tax scandal of 1976. Mostly in Swedish..... Ingmar never told us what his films were about--he left that up to us....
The talented Gong Lì.
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Sotirio Bellou, the great Rembetika singer from Greece Anna Karina et Jean Paul Belmondo, 1965
Jodie Foster: "Je t'attends depuis la nuit des temps"