neorasum в УрГУ

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[Piano: Classical]

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This is like Holy Grail of cinema.

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These are where
Maya kept her films...

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and actually there are films inside...

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and we don't even know
what they are.

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This is one of the archives where...

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one can still make discoveries,
and one can get...

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excited and in ecstasy!

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[Chuckles]

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There may be some very
interesting discoveries.

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This is the first picture
I took of Maya.

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It must have been a few days
after we met in Hollywood.

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It's already faded a little.

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I was fascinated by her face.

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kind of exotic.

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Maya wasn't always Maya.

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She used to be called Eleanora.

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Her mother used to call her
Elinka in Russian.

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She confided in me that
she was unhappy about her name...

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and she asked me once
to find a name for her.

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So I just went to a library
and looked through a lot ofbooks...

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mainly books on myhology.

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I came across the name Maya
in different connections...

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for instance, with water.

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But Maya also was the name
of mother of Buddha.

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In Hinduism, Maya was
the name of a goddess...

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who holds a veil
in front of our eyes...

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a veil of illusion,
which prevents us from seeing...

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the spiritual reality behind it.

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[Maya Deren] I was a poet
before I was a filmmaker...

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and I was a very poor poet...

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because I thought
in terms of images.

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What existed as essentially
a visual experience in my mind...

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poetry was an effort
to put it into verbal terms.

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When I got a camera in my hand,
it was like coming home.

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It was like doing what I always
wanted to do without the need...

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to translate it into a verbal form.

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[Woman]
She could have been a dancer...

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but that would have taken
full-time work with us.

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And so, she stayed being
a kind of a personal secretary.

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You know, that sort of thing.

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I had to keep my eye
on Maya at times, you know...

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because I don't think I had
a star complex at all...

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but I had to remind her
now and then...

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we were in Hollywood
to begin...

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kind of a new career
for the company.

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Frequently I would ask some of
the Hollywood people to come in.

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And Maya was wonderful
at meeting them at the door...

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and introductions and seating them,
and so forth and so on.

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But the gleam in her eye...

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when the drummers took their positions
and began to play, you know...

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And we'd have our exercise.
Always the drums we were.

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Well, Maya had a habit of...
She was extremely well built as far...

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robust, you know...
and she'd sit there.

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Usually her-her little simple frocks were
quite low cut, in the front anyway.

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And after a while
she couldn't stand it...

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and you could just feel it
growing and growing in her.

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And she turned, I remember...
Her favorite thing was to say...

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"How can you sit still?"

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You know? And then
she'd start in on this sort.

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I was wild,
because I had to find...

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Little by little, I had to
stop it, of course.

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I couldn't have that at all
with these impresarios.

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But who knows? Maybe she helped us
get our Hollywood position.

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The drums really took her over.

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She was possessed by rhythm.

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And you could see it without drums,
without sound or anything else...

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and in the way
she handled her body.

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[Deren] If I did not live in a time when
the film was accessible to me as a medium...

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I would have been a dancer,
perhaps, or a singer.

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My reason for creating them is
almost as if I would dance...

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except this is a much more
marvelous dance.

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It's because in film,
I can make the world dance.

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Actually, this picture
was not planned for the film.

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I just made it
in a spur of the moment.

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I liked the reflections of the trees...

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in the glass in front of her.

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Later on we used to call it
my Botticelli picture...

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because it reminded us
of Italian Renaissance.

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And this one was taken
in New York...

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with our cat, Glamour Girl,
that came with us from Hollywood.

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This was our apartment
in Greenwich Village in Morton Street.

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We had kind of a studio apartment.

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We used it a lot...

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as a location for shooting.

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It had very nice light.

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Large windows to the south.

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And our cats were with us,
of course.

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Maya loved cats.

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Maya liked mirrors very much...

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and used the idea of a mirror
often in her writing.

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Also, the film ends
with a broken mirror.

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Maya was born Eleanora Derenkowski...

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beautiful name... in 1917...

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the year of the Russian revolution,
in Russia...

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in kiev, the great, great capital
of the Ukraine.

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She came out of
a very privileged situation.

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MostJews did not live in the cities...

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but there were
a good number of them.

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What was special about the Derens,
the Derenkowskies...

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is that both parents were
so very highly educated...