The Witch's Cradle (1944), sometimes billed as Witches' Cradle, is an unfinished, silent, experimental short film written and directed by Maya Deren, featuring Marcel Duchamp, and filmed in Peggy Guggenheim's Art of This Century gallery.

The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several individuals, most notably an unnamed young woman (Pajorita Marta) and an elderly gentleman (Duchamp).

The Witch's Cradle was written and directed by experimental filmmaker Maya Deren.

[1][2] The film was developed at a comparison between surrealists' defiance of time and space and that of medieval magicians and witches.

[3] Daren developed the film over a period of one month, lasting from August to September 1943.