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At Land
At Land
1944
Short Film
15m
Silently, a woman wakes on a beach as the tides go in reverse. Her dreamscape unfolds as she tries to locate a chess piece traveling from the beach to a party to a country road and then back. (imdb)
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At Land
1944
Short Film
15m
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Rated 02 Mar 2008
75
44th
A pretty cool little film. The visuals are interesting and while it's no where near the pinnacle of experimental film, at 14 minutes it's worth a watch.
Rated 02 Mar 2008
Rated 05 Mar 2010
76
64th
Pushed the boundaries of cross-cutting to an extreme. AND had chess on the beach before that became vogue.
Rated 05 Mar 2010
Rated 06 Feb 2011
98
99th
Deren gives us a series of constantly fluctuating spaces in which the identity of the protagonist is the only constant, but even that is compromised when it's revealed that we may not have even been following one individual the whole time. Brilliant.
Rated 06 Feb 2011
Rated 04 Feb 2008
65
30th
This was kind of cool, but on the tedious side. "Visual poetry" and all that jazz, sure, but not exactly riveting. As I see it there just isn't enough going on here compared to Un Chien Andalou and other seminal Surrealist films, which is why the result is pretty but rather dull.
Rated 04 Feb 2008
Rated 09 Jul 2008
3
24th
Boring. I had to force myself to watch this.
Rated 09 Jul 2008
Rated 08 Feb 2009
58
26th
I almost fell asleep the first time I watched this. While the cinematography is sometimes interesting, everything else is boring, which I find seems to be a running theme in experimental films.
Rated 08 Feb 2009
Rated 01 Mar 2015
3
30th
a woman explores the worlds of man and nature. doesn't really do much for me. i don't like symbolism.
Rated 01 Mar 2015
Rated 22 Nov 2015
36
29th
"The direction of this film is towards the elimination of literary-dramatic lines and literal-symbolistic meanings, in order to discover, instead, a purely cinematic coherence and integrity. Through dislocations of space and time it creates a relativistic universe in which the individual alone is a continuous identity. If one may speak of a theme, it is the effort of the individual to relate oneself, as an identity, to a fluid, apparently incoherent universe." Not really buying it.
Rated 22 Nov 2015
Rated 26 Sep 2016
93
77th
Love Maya Deren. I've always seen this as kind of like a sequel to Meshes of the Afternoon, where Meshes ends with the mirror smashing on the beach, and At Land begins on the beach.
Rated 26 Sep 2016
Rated 16 Aug 2017
66
36th
Some interesting visuals and a commendable experimental attitude but didn't do anything special to me as a whole.
Rated 16 Aug 2017
Rated 08 Dec 2018
40
58th
Not nearly as interesting as her first outing, Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), but Maya Deren's face could tell a thousand stories!
Rated 08 Dec 2018
Rated 17 Nov 2019
80
83rd
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MlGYgmzk9Y
Rated 17 Nov 2019
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