At Land (1944)

Directed by

Maya Deren

Genre

silent film

Country

United States

Runtime

15 min

Rating

7.3 of 10 from 109 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A woman is washed up on a beach and then travels through a strange series of encounters. She meets other people and also comes across other versions of herself.

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What happens

At Land is a 1944 American experimental silent short 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 composer John Cage and the poet and film critic Parker Tyler were involved in making the film, and appear in the film, which was shot at Amagansett, Long Island. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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