SOURCE: A review of The Very Eye of Night, in Monthly Film Bulletin, Vol. 55, No. 654, July, 1988, p. 219.

In the following review, Kuhn asserts that Deren's The Very Eye of Night has "a more formal, abstract—even a more modernist—quality than any of Deren's other films."

The Very Eye of Night is the last of Maya Deren's six completed films. Ten years separate it from her penultimate work, Meditation on Violence, and Deren herself announced that this would be her final film (fateful words—she was to die just three years afterwards). It is in consequence often treated as an after-thought: the film has received little critical attention—it has only recently become available in Britain—and rather less acclaim. Described by its maker as "cool and classicist", it has a certain detached quality although it is by no means merely a formal exercise. Nor, in any real...