Watch "Witches Cradle," an experimental occult film from 1943

Originally published at: Watch "Witches Cradle," an experimental occult film from 1943 | Boing Boing

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Video link for the BBS


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iErVrOQH5U

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GIF by Leroy Patterson

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Interesting - this is just a few years before her initiation into Haitian Voudoun, which resulted in her work with which I’m most familiar.

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Thats really from 1943? The whole style of the film looks more like 1960s. Interesting!

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why is this marked as private on Youtube?

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:man_shrugging:

Maybe the uploaded was uncomfortable with the attention this video was receiving? Or maybe they’d gotten some bad comments and took the simplest route to eliminating the problem?

Here’s a link to another uploading of the movie: Witch's cradle (Maya Deren , M. Duchamp - 1943) - YouTube

is the movie only 11 minutes long? or is this post just a clip from it?

This one is blocked/marked as “private” :frowning:

That’s apparently the whole thing. Here’s the IMDB entry about it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0178109/

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