Ritual in Transfigured Time

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  • NR
  • 1945
  • 15 min
  • 6.9  (1,855)

Elusive and enigmatic, RITUAL IN TRANSFIGURED TIME begins with its director, the avant-garde pioneer filmmaker Maya Deren, winding a seemingly endless skein of yarn. She is joined by a young woman (the Trinidadian dancer Rita Christiani, one of Deren's closest friends) who is then led away from their increasingly nightmarish domestic task and into a party filled with luminaries from the 1940s art world (look for Anaïs Nin, Gore Vidal, John Cage and dancer/Deren collaborator Frank Westbrook within the crowd). At the soirée, the guests gesture with fleeting, graceful, movements that coalesce into the steps of an intricate dance. Suddenly outdoors, in New York's Central Park, they dance, float and leap thorough space, into and out of each others arms, and among statues and columns. Deren's dash into the Atlantic Ocean in the film's final act was her last on-camera appearance during her lifetime. Soon, she would leave Greenwich Village in favor of Haiti and turn her attention from the struggle for personal expression to the struggle for collective spirituality. The film ends in eerie reversal footage as Christiani, having turned from black to white, falls, veiled, through the ocean depths. - Livia Bloom

Ritual in Transfigured Time is a 1945 mystery with a runtime of 15 minutes. It has received mostly positive reviews from critics and viewers, who have given it an IMDb score of 6.9.

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  • Release Date
    1945
  • MPAA Rating
    NR
  • Runtime
    15 min
  • Language
    English
  • IMDB Rating
    6.9  (1,855)