A beautiful, elusive study of the female psyche, Ritual in Transfigured Time's meaning is very much open to interpretation, and indeed it should be. Filmmaker Maya Deren is working with symbols and visual imagery rather than words and a linear narrative, and thus what Ritual is "
may be one of my most fav mayaderen works// Notes: such a depersonalization is not the destruction of the individual; on the contrary, it enlarges him beyond the personal dimension.