Person
Maya Deren
Directing
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- Apr 29, 1917
- Died
- Oct 13, 1961
- From
- Kyiv, Ukraine
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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Meshes of the Afternoon
At Land
Ritual in Transfigured Time
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Invocation: Maya Deren
Maya Deren's Sink
Maya Deren, Take Zero
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
Vever (For Barbara)
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
Witch's Cradle
A Study in Choreography for Camera
Meditation on Violence
The Very Eye of Night
The Private Life of a Cat
Ensemble for Somnambulists
Cinema16: American Short Films