The Very Eye of Night Response

Maya Deren's, "The Very Eye of Night" serves as a fundamental building block for the genre of experimental film, or the Avante-garde form of art.Deren superimposes two forms of video over one another and creates an effect that may have wowed audiences when it was first released. Deren uses this non-narrative film to give the audience a feeling of dancing in space, without spending a huge budget on sets and props, seen in Melies' A Trip to the Moon. While I can appreciate the history of this film but as film enthusiast and filmmaker, I'm not particularly fond of this work. While I enjoy many different forms of art and film, it felt dry. For it's time it is a great film, but to todays standards in visual projection production it doesn't come close in todays market. Overall, a good introduction to a genre of film that doesn't necessarily derive meaning in film or rather, contain a complex narrative. It simply serves a purpose to be visually and aesthetically pleasing to those who view it. And who knows, maybe you can derive your own meaning.