Hi, I checked with Bruce Checefsky, who spent two years researching this work before making his version of Witch¹s Cradle. He said that interviews, particularly with Alexander Hammid, make it clear that what is in the Anthology collection are the outtakes from Witch¹s Cradle, not the edited film.
Per Checefsky: Deren felt that the edited film was never finished. She had two prints of her work print made, one for herself and one for Duchamp. The whereabouts of both of these are unknown, and they are currently considered lost. As such, the statement "an unfinished, now lost 1943 short² is accurate. For those who are curious, some of these outtakes from Witch¹s Cradle are currently on You Tube at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_9z6_DA-tqU There are clearly multiple takes, and so forth. But I do not know if this is what was screened in Los Angeles or at Anthology as referenced below. Best regards, Adam -- Adam Hyman Los Angeles Filmforum [email protected] http://www.lafilmforum.org On 7/20/14 3:00 PM, "C Keefer" <[email protected]> wrote: > Re current listing in This Week in Avant-Garde Cinema, for LA Filmforum's July > 20 show - the listing refers to Witch's Cradle as "an unfinished, now lost > 1943 short by pioneering experimental filmmaker Maya Deren." > > This unfinished film is not lost, but exists in the collection of Anthology > Film Archives. It was recently screened in Los Angeles as well as at Anthology > in NY, plus we installed a long excerpt on a monitor in the recent In > Wonderland exhibition at LACMA. > > Cindy Keefer > CVM > > Center for Visual Music > www.centerforvisualmusic.org <http://www.centerforvisualmusic.org> > cvmaccess (at) gmail.com <http://gmail.com> > > > > _______________________________________________ FrameWorks mailing list > [email protected] > https://mailman-mail5.webfaction.com/listinfo/frameworks
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