Maya Deren
Biography
Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleonora Derenkowska (Ukrainian: Елеоно́ра Деренко́вська), was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s. Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer.
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Movies (21)
Alter Ego Film Project
Original Film Writer (Writing)
2024
Vever (For Barbara)
Sound (Sound)
2023
Maya Deren, Take Zero
as Herself
2012
Maya Deren's Sink
as Herself (archival footage)
2011
Cinema16: American Short Films
Director (Directing)
2006
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
as Herself
2002
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
Director (Directing)
1993
Invocation: Maya Deren
as Herself (archive footage)
1986
A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes
Director (Directing)
1975
Season of Strangers
Director (Directing)
1959
The Very Eye of Night
Director (Directing)
1958
Ensemble for Somnambulists
Producer (Production)
1951
Meditation on Violence
Director (Directing)
1949
Medusa
Director (Directing)
1949
The Private Life of a Cat
Producer (Production)
1946
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
A Study in Choreography for Camera
Director (Directing)
1945
At Land
1944
Witch's Cradle
Director (Directing)
1944
Meshes of the Afternoon
as The Woman
1943