This essay is about the unique sense of reality that photography and film can create which makes photography and cinematography distinct art forms, different from other forms such as painting or theater.
"Maya Deren (April 29, 1917, Kiev – October 13, 1961, New York City), born Eleanora Derenkowsky, was an American avant-garde filmmaker and film theorist of the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, poet, writer and photographer."