Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)

Director	Maya Deren
Producer	Maya Deren
Contributors	Hella Heyman, Frank Westbrook, Rita Christiani
Length	16 min.
B&W/Color	B&W
UO Library Catalog description:	“A choreography for camera in which film techniques–reprinting, varying camera speeds, and direction and movement of the camera–create a ritual dance from non-dance movements. Performed by Rita Christiani and Frank Westbrook.”
Call #	FILM Mb28
Genre	Experimental
Rare	Yes
Online	Yes
Copyright status	Public Domain (C on the film (1946 by Maya Deren) but not renewed)
Physical condition	FAIR
Oregon-related	NO

Notes:

It goes without saying that Maya Deren made an impressionable impact on the filmmaking industry during her life. Made a year before her break-out hit, Meshes of the Afternoon (1946), this film explores the fear of rejection and the freedom of expression in abandoning ritual. Deren experiments with time-remapping (slowing and speeding up footage, freeze-frames), and “with slowed footage of two wind-swept women immersed in ritualized wool looming.” Source

The film won no awards.