{"id":23665,"date":"2022-06-14T13:45:21","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T11:45:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/?p=23665"},"modified":"2025-05-10T21:37:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T19:37:35","slug":"witchs-cradle-1943-by-maya-deren","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/witchs-cradle-1943-by-maya-deren\/","title":{"rendered":"Witch&#8217;s Cradle (1943) by Maya Deren"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/QQRTAnLQFQM\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Video (11:54): Witch&#8217;s Cradle (1943) by <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Maya_Deren\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Maya Deren<\/a> (1917-1961) is an experimental short film, written and directed by Maya Deren with Marcel Duchamp. This version of the short film has a soundtrack, though Maya Deren wanted her films to be silent.<\/p>\n<p>Shot in the rooms of Peggy Guggenheim&#8217;s Art of This Century in Manhattan in 1943, the film is inspired by Duchamp&#8217;s installation &#8220;Sixteen Miles of String&#8221;, prepared for the installation of the &#8220;First Papers of Surrealism&#8221;, a surrealist exhibition of 1942 held in New York and comprised of sixteen miles of rope. The film, Witch&#8217;s Cradle, was never completed and the images of the shot were later recovered and edited by the Anthology Film Archives after the director&#8217;s death, so we will never know what Deren actually intended to achieve.<\/p>\n<p>Biennale Arte 2022 in Venice Italy has named a surealist art artshow at the art festival, the &#8216;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.labiennale.org\/en\/art\/2022\/witchs-cradle\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Witch&#8217;s Cradle<\/a>&#8216;, after Maya Deren&#8217;s film. This big historic artshow include works works by the following surealist artists who were &#8216;queer&#8217; or &#8216;gender fluid&#8217;: Maya Deren, Claude Cahun, Leonora Carrington, Leonor Fini, Florence Henri and others.<\/p>\n<p><em>[The copyright of the video above remains with the original holder and it is used here for the purpose of education, comparison and criticism only.]<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Video (11:54): Witch&#8217;s Cradle (1943) by Maya Deren (1917-1961) is an experimental short film, written and directed by Maya Deren with Marcel Duchamp. This version of the short film has a soundtrack, though Maya Deren wanted her films to be silent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1704,918,1466],"tags":[1454],"class_list":["post-23665","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-20-century-artists","category-film-video","category-northeastern-united-states","tag-maya-deren"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23665","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23665"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23665\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23665"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23665"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.femininemoments.dk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23665"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}