Maya Deren
Maya Deren
Person

Maya Deren

Director 1917-04-29 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.

Known for

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Meshes of the Afternoon

Meshes of the Afternoon

1943 · The Woman

At Land

At Land

1944 · Movie

Ritual in Transfigured Time

Ritual in Transfigured Time

1946 · Movie

In the Mirror of Maya Deren

In the Mirror of Maya Deren

2002 · Herself

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

2011 · Herself (archive footage)

Invocation: Maya Deren

Invocation: Maya Deren

1986 · Herself (archive footage)

Maya Deren's Sink

Maya Deren's Sink

2011 · Herself (archival footage)

Maya Deren - Experimental Films

Maya Deren - Experimental Films

2002 · Movie

Maya Deren, Take Zero

2012 · Herself