The Very Eye of Night (1958)
15m
Running Time
May 3, 1958Release Date
Plot.
Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield background. Their movements are accompanied by music scored for a small ensemble of woodwind and percussion.
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Cast & Crew.
Don Freisinger
Gemini
Patricia Ferrer
Dancer
Richard Sandifer
Gemini
Genaro Gómez
Dancer
Bud Bready
Oberon
Barbara Levin
Titania
Richard Englund
Uranus
Rosemary Williams
Urania
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Wiki.
The Very Eye of Night is 1955 American experimental silent short film written and directed by Maya Deren, and her last completed film. Made in collaboration with Metropolitan Opera Ballet School, the film was shot in black-and-white in the 16 mm format, and is projected as photographed in the negative.The Very of Eye of Night premiered in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1955. It later screened in New York in 1959, with an added musical score by Teiji Ito.