
Maya Deren
Directing
Born: 1917-04-29 Β· Kyiv, Ukraine
Died: 1961-10-13
Biography
Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 β October 13, 1961), born Eleonora Derenkowska (Ukrainian: ΠΠ»Π΅ΠΎΠ½ΠΎΜΡΠ° ΠΠ΅ΡΠ΅Π½ΠΊΠΎΜΠ²ΡΡΠΊΠ°), 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.
π¬ Movies (21)

Alter Ego Film Project
2024
Original Film Writer

Vever (For Barbara)
2023
Sound
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012
Herself

Maya Deren's Sink
2011
Herself (archival footage)

Cinema16: American Short Films
2006
Director

In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002
Herself

Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002
Director

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993
Director

Invocation: Maya Deren
1986
Herself (archive footage)

Season of Strangers
1959
Director

The Very Eye of Night
1958
Director

Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951
Director

Meditation on Violence
1949
Director

Medusa
1949
Director

Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
Director

The Private Life of a Cat
1946
Director

A Study in Choreography for Camera
1945
Director

A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes
1945
Director

At Land
1944
Director

Witch's Cradle
1944
Director

Meshes of the Afternoon
1943
Director