Maya Deren
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderFemale
Birthday29 April 1917
Died13 October 1961 (age 44)
Place of birthKyiv, Ukraine
Known credits22
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.
Alter Ego Film Project
2024 · Original Film Writer
Vever (For Barbara)
2023 · Sound
Vever (For Barbara)
2023 · Writer
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012 · Herself
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012 · Music
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 · Herself (archive footage)
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
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002 · Cinematography
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002 · Director
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002 · Editor
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002 · Writer
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993 · Director
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993 · Director of Photography
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993 · Book
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986 · Herself (archive footage)
Season of Strangers
1959 · Director
The Very Eye of Night
1958 · Director
The Very Eye of Night
1958 · Editor
The Very Eye of Night
1958 · Cinematography
The Very Eye of Night
1958 · Writer
Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951 · Director
Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951 · Writer
Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951 · Producer
Meditation on Violence
1949 · Director
Meditation on Violence
1949 · Writer
Meditation on Violence
1949 · Cinematography
Medusa
1949 · Director
The Private Life of a Cat
1946 · Producer
The Private Life of a Cat
1946 · Co-Director
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946 · Director
A Study in Choreography for Camera
1945 · Director
A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes
1945 · Director
At Land
1944
At Land
1944 · Director
At Land
1944 · Writer
Witch's Cradle
1944 · Director
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943 · The Woman
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943 · Director
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943 · Editor
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943 · Writer
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