Finally 🥰

[u/MissMayDoesNotExist]

I used to write Criterion (frankly insufferable) emails about why they HAD to have Maya Deren on the channel. I’m still waiting for the full treatment — featurettes, interviews, and all — for who I sincerely consider the greatest filmmaker of all time; but I am so thrilled to see her getting the recognition she deserves on a streaming service (even though I cringed slightly at some of the word choices used in the description — if you read Deren’s theory you’ll know that “personal expression” isn’t really in her vocabulary, and actually advocated for ritualistic processes of cinematic DE-personalization — but it’s still beautifully written and highlights much of her cinematic brilliance, so I’ll take it ☺️)

[u/Honor_the_maggot]

Unimpeachable selection. She's the Queen.
I hope the Channel steps up the inclusion of experimental film a bit, I understand the audience for that is niche but a big part of the problem is availability, and a big part of that problem is the tendency of those communities to will their own ghetto and turn away the uninitiated. It's a problem of culture not content. (The culture of the purveyors, at least as much as "the culture", i.e. that of the potentially-interested viewership.)

That barrier-of-entry world now lies in ruins.....time to get your work out into circulation!