Maya Deren
Born
29 April 1917 (108)
Place of Birth
Kyiv, Ukraine
Also known as
Eleonora Derenkowsky
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.
Filmography (19)
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012
Maya Deren's Sink
2011
Cinema16: American Short Films
2006
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986
Season of Strangers
1959
🎬 Director
The Very Eye of Night
1958
Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951
Meditation on Violence
1949
Medusa
1949
🎬 Director
The Private Life of a Cat
1946
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
A Study in Choreography for Camera
1945
A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes
1945
At Land
1944
Witch's Cradle
1944
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943