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Rita Christiani (1917-2008) was a Trinidad-born American dancer who appeared in American films during the 1940s.
Rita Christiani was born on 22 December 1917 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. She was an actress, known for Happy Go Lucky (1943), Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946) and Im Spiegel der Maya Deren (2001). She died on 23 May 2008 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Rita Christiani was born on 22 December 1917 in Port of Spain, Trinidad. She was an actress, known for Happy Go Lucky (1943), Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946) and Im Spiegel der Maya Deren (2001). She died on 23 May 2008 in Brooklyn, New York, USA.
Nov 16, 2022 · The film is centered on the dancer Rita Christiani, a former member of Dunham’s dance company, whom Deren, in her script outline, considered, for the purposes of the film, “the same person...
Rita Christiani is drawn to Deren and begins winding the string into a ball. Close-up and slow motion highlight the intense feeling on Deren's face as she talks and moves her hands up and down, performing the first of the rituals in the film. Anaïs Nin looks upon the scene scornfully.
Maya Deren 1917 – 1961. In 1943, Maya Deren made one of the most influential experimental films in American cinema, Meshes of the Afternoon, in collaboration with cinematographer Alexander Hammid.
Ritual In Transfigured Time (1946) silently follows Rita Christiani's perspective as she enters an apartment to find Maya Deren immersed in the ritual of unwinding wool from a loom.
