The Witch's Cradle
Maya Deren
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Description:
This silent film, which was never completed, was inspired by the architectural structure and paintings and objects in the gallery. I was concerned with the impression that surrealistic objects were, in a sense, the cabalistic symbols of the 20th Century; for the surrealist artists, like the feudal magicians and witches, were motivated by a desire to deal with the real forces underlying events (the feudal evil spirits are similar to the modern sub-conscious drives) and to discard the validity of surface and apparent causation.
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