Maya Deren
- Directing
- April 29, 1917 · Kyiv, Ukraine
- October 13, 1961
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, Writer
- Maya Deren, Take Zero · Self, Music
- Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film · Self
- Maya Deren's Sink · Self
- Cinema16: American Short Films · Director
- In the Mirror of Maya Deren · Self
- Maya Deren - Experimental Films · Cinematography, Director
- Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti · Director, Cinematography
- Invocation: Maya Deren · Self
- Season of Strangers · Director
- The Very Eye of Night · Director, Editing
- Ensemble for Somnambulists · Writer, Director
- Meditation on Violence · Director, Writer
- Medusa · Director
- The Private Life of a Cat · Producer, Co-Director
- Ritual in Transfigured Time · Director
- A Study in Choreography for Camera · Director
- A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes · Director
- At Land · Writer, Director
- Witch's Cradle · Director
- Meshes of the Afternoon · The Woman, Director