:The Very Eye of Night

{{Short description|1955 experimental short film}}

{{Infobox film

| name = The Very Eye of Night

| image = Stills from The Very Eye of Night (1958).png

| caption = Stills from The Very Eye of Night

| director = Maya Deren

| producer =

| writer = Maya Deren

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| story =

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| starring = {{plainlist|

• Don Freisinger
• Richard Sandifer
• Patricia Ferrier
• Bud Bready
• Genaro Gomez
• Barbara Levin
• Richard Englund
• Rosemary Williams
• Phillip Salem

}}

| narrator =

| music = Teiji Ito{{cite web |last1=Myers |first1=Holly |title=Art Review: The Very Eye of the Night at Jancar Gallery |url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-xpm-2012-jul-03-la-et-cm-art-review-the-very-eye-of-the-night-at-jancar-gallery-20120703-story.html |work=Los Angeles Times |accessdate=18 July 2019 |date=3 July 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718183315/https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-xpm-2012-jul-03-la-et-cm-art-review-the-very-eye-of-the-night-at-jancar-gallery-20120703-story.html |archive-date=18 July 2019 |url-status=live }}{{cite journal |url=http://www.sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/deren-2/ |title=Great Directors: Maya Deren |first=Wendy |last=Haslem |journal=Senses of Cinema |issue=23 |date=12 December 2002 |accessdate=19 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121006131106/http://sensesofcinema.com/2002/great-directors/deren-2/ |archive-date=6 October 2012 |url-status=live }}

| cinematography = Maya Deren

| editing = Maya Deren

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| released = {{Film date|1955|||Haiti|1959|||New York}}

| runtime = 15 minutes

| country = United States

| language = Silent

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The Very Eye of Night is 1955 American experimental silent short film written and directed by Maya Deren.{{cite web |title=Maya Deren The Very Eye of Night |url=https://film-makerscoop.com/catalogue/maya-deren-the-very-eye-of-night |website=film-makerscoop.com |publisher=The Film-Makers' Cooperative |accessdate=18 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190714102313/https://film-makerscoop.com/catalogue/maya-deren-the-very-eye-of-night |archive-date=14 July 2019 |url-status=live }} Made in collaboration with Metropolitan Opera Ballet School,{{Cite web |url=http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/films/inthemirrorofmayaderen/presskit.pdf |title=In the Mirror of Maya Deren |website=Zeitgeist Films |accessdate=19 June 2011 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20130606075957/http://www.zeitgeistfilms.com/films/inthemirrorofmayaderen/presskit.pdf |archivedate=June 6, 2013 |df=mdy-all}} the film was shot in black-and-white in the 16 mm format,{{cite web |title=The Very Eye of Night |url=https://www.cinematheque.qc.ca/fr/programmation/projections/film/very-eye-night-0?pid=23860 |website=cinematheque.qc.ca |publisher=Cinematheque |access-date=18 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210304062704/https://www.cinematheque.qc.ca/fr/programmation/projections/film/very-eye-night-0?pid=23860 |archive-date=4 March 2021 |url-status=dead}} and is projected as photographed in the negative.{{cite web |title=The Very Eye of Night |url=https://lightcone.org/en/film-1588-the-very-eye-of-night |website=lightcone.org |publisher=Light Cone |accessdate=18 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190718183255/https://lightcone.org/en/film-1588-the-very-eye-of-night |archive-date=18 July 2019 |url-status=live }}

The Very of Eye of Night premiered in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, in 1955.{{cite web |title=Maya Deren: seven films that guarantee her legend |url=https://www.bfi.org.uk/features/maya-deren-meshes-of-the-afternoon |website=bfi.org |publisher=BFI |accessdate=19 July 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190719052615/https://www.bfi.org.uk/news-opinion/news-bfi/features/maya-deren-meshes-of-the-afternoon |archive-date=19 July 2019 |url-status=live }} It later screened in New York in 1959, with an added musical score by Teiji Ito.