Maya Deren's Sink(2011)

Maya Deren's Sink is a 30-minute experimental film that honors the pioneering avant-garde filmmaker through intimate testimony and archival fragments. Teiji Ito's family, Carolee Schneemann, and Judith Malina move through Deren's former homes, sharing scattered memories of her life and work. Clips from Deren's own films are projected onto the spaces where they were shot—across floorboards, furniture, and the bowl of her sink—creating a layered dialogue between past and present. Fluid light and projection transform these domestic interiors into a meditation on memory, creative legacy, and the spaces that shaped one of American cinema's most influential artists. The film captures an elusive presence: a filmmaker most will never meet, rendered visible through the very medium she revolutionized.