"Anyone who watches Maya Deren’s films will quickly realise that they are all miniature dreamscapes of afterworlds and underworlds. Not much more than fifteen minutes apiece, they are each a weave of images without a soundtrack. Deren, working most productively in the 1940s, deliberately and brilliantly returns film to silence"
— Three Studies for a Triptych: Elizabeth Bishop, Patti Smith, Maya Deren by Nichola Dean, cited in my most recent post.