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At Land

At Land (1944)7.8 /10

None · USA · 15 min · 1944 · More  
Directed by:  Maya Deren
Written by:  Maya Deren

Storyline:  Experimental and silent short film, written, directed and starring Maya Deren. A dreamlike narrative in which a woman wakes up on a beach while the waves go back and forth in reverse, entering a strange journey where she meets other people and other versions of herself, in the rigorous search for a chess piece. In Maya's own words, a precursor of avant-garde American cinema, “the film is about the struggle to maintain one's personal identity”.

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