- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- April 29, 1917
- Place of Birth
- Kyiv, Ukraine
- Died
- October 13, 1961
Maya Deren
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
movieAlter Ego Film Project
2024 · Original Film Writer
movieVever (For Barbara)
2023 · Sound, Writer
Maya Deren, Take Zero
movieMaya Deren, Take Zero
2012 · Herself, Music
movieMaya Deren's Sink
2011 · Herself (archival footage)
movieCinema16: American Short Films
2006 · Director
movieIn the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002 · Herself
movieMaya Deren - Experimental Films
2002 · , Cinematography, Director, Editor, Writer
movieDivine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993 · Director, Director of Photography, Book
movieInvocation: Maya Deren
1986 · Herself (archive footage)
movieSeason of Strangers
1959 · Director
movieThe Very Eye of Night
1958 · Director, Editor, Cinematography, Writer
movieEnsemble for Somnambulists
1951 · Writer, Director, Producer
movieMeditation on Violence
1949 · Director, Writer, Cinematography
movieMedusa
1949 · Director
movieThe Private Life of a Cat
1946 · Producer, Director
movieRitual in Transfigured Time
1946 · , Director
movieA Study in Choreography for Camera
1945 · Director
movieA Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes
1945 · Director
movieAt Land
1944 · , Writer, Director
movieWitch's Cradle
1944 · Director
movieMeshes of the Afternoon
1943 · The Woman, Director, Editor, Writer