Lilian Bond as Gladys Perkins in The Old Dark House (1932)

Black Girls (2024)
dir. B Monét
cine. Xavi Portillo

THE PRINCESS DIARIES
2001 | dir. Garry Marshall

"It's a strange thing to hold the seed of a film inside you. For me, the process of bringing it into life asks for me to be in my body. To allow myself to be affected. I deeply believe so much of directing is about getting out of the way. Trusting what moves you. What wants to move through you."

—Raven Jackson

At Land (1944) 

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Director: Maya Deren

Cinematographers: Alexander Hammid, Hella Heyman

“In my case I have found it necessary, each time, to ignore any of my previous statements. After the first film was completed, when someone asked me to define the principle which it embodied, I answered that the function of film, like that of other art forms, was to create experience—in this case a semi-psychological reality. But the actual creation of the second film caused me to subsequently answer a similar question with an entirely different emphasis. This time, that reality must exploit the capacity of film to manipulate Time and Space. By the end of the third film, I had again shifted the emphasis—insisting this time on a filmically visual integrity, which would create a dramatic necessity of itself, rather than be dependent upon or derive from an underlying dramatic development. Now, on the basis of the fourth, I feel that all the other elements must be retained, but that special attention must be given to the creative possibilities of Time, and that the form as a whole should be ritualistic…”

— An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film by Maya Deren, The Alicat Book Shop Press, chapbook, 1946

The Devils
1971, dir. Ken Russell

The Alcohol Years (2000), dir. Carol Morley

Margaret Daino — The First Omen (2024)