Known For
Directing
Born
Apr 29, 1917
Died
Oct 13, 1961
Place of Birth
Kyiv, Ukraine
Credits
22 titles
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.
Known For
Filmography
Alter Ego Film Project
Original Film Writer
Vever (For Barbara)
Sound
Maya Deren, Take Zero
Herself
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Herself (archive footage)
Maya Deren's Sink
Herself (archival footage)
Cinema16: American Short Films
Director
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Herself
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
Director
Invocation: Maya Deren
Herself (archive footage)
Season of Strangers
Director
The Very Eye of Night
Director
Ensemble for Somnambulists
Director
Meditation on Violence
Director
Medusa
Director
The Private Life of a Cat
Producer
Ritual in Transfigured Time
A Study in Choreography for Camera
Director
A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes
Director
At Land
Witch's Cradle
Director
Meshes of the Afternoon
The Woman