The Very Eye of Night is Maya Deren’s last completed film. It was made from 1952 to 1955 in collaboration with choreographer Antony Tudor, but it was not released until 1959 when the musical score by Teiji Ito was added.
A shimmering constellation of stars established the background for negative images of figures resembling greek gods superimposed on and magically transported along the milky way. Deren called it her “ballet of night”, an ethereal dance within a nocturnal space that focused on the spectacle rather than the narrative.