Invocation. Maya Deren - ACE167.5

Newspaper items about Deren. Commentary talks about her winning the first Guggenheim grant for film art, and spending the $3000 on visiting Haiti to make a film on ritual but finding it impossible to edit her footage. Deren’s VO. Footage from assemblage by Teiji and Cherel Ito. Footage from Bali taken by Gregory Bateson and Margaret Mead in the 1930s (used in Trance and Dance in Bali). Deren’s VO. Commentary on Deren’s visits to Haiti, and on her lecturing, writing, film workshops, etc. Joseph Campbell, Professor of Comparative Mythology, on Deren’s discovery and study of voudun (voodoo). Haitian footage. Brakhage on Deren and voudun rituals. Caption: "Nightbeat 1958. Mike Wallace interviewed Maya Deren." Newspaper articles on Deren and voudun, photographs, Haitian footage. Interview VO. Deren’s book, Divine Horsemen (1953). Voudun artefacts; Haitian footage. Campbell talking about the book and Deren’s experiences, including her possession by the goddess Erzulie.