Teiji Ito

Teiji Ito

1935-01-22
47 (1982-08-16)
Tokyo, Japan

Teiji Ito was a Japanese composer and performer. He is best known for his scores for the avant-garde films by Maya Deren.

Tokyo, Japan

Teiji Ito was a Japanese composer and performer. He is best known for his scores for the avant-garde films by Maya Deren.

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Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 (7.64)

A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.
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The Very Eye of Night 1958 (5.9)

Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings. The dancers glide and rotate untroubled by gravity against a slowly changing starfield background. Their movements are accompanied by music scored for a small ensemble of woodwind and percussion.
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Meditation on Violence 1949 (5.5)

Chao-Li Chi shadow boxes indoors and practices with a sword outdoors. Theoretically, the film describes in a single continuous movement three degrees of traditional Chinese boxing, Wu-tang, Shao-lin, and Shao-lin with a sword. A long sequence of the ballet-like, sinuous Wu-tang becomes the more erratic Shao-lin; in the middle, there is an abrupt change to leaping sword movements, in the center of which, at the apogee of the leap, there is a long held freeze-frame.