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