Maya Deren

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

Meshes of the Afternoon

Year

1943

Type

Movie

At Land

Year

1944

Type

Movie

A Study in Choreography for Camera

Year

1945

Type

Movie

Ritual in Transfigured Time

Year

1946

Type

Movie

The Private Life of a Cat

Year

1946

Type

Movie

Witch's Cradle

Year

1944

Type

Movie

The Very Eye of Night

Year

1958

Type

Movie

Meditation on Violence

Year

1949

Type

Movie

Ensemble for Somnambulists

Year

1951

Type

Movie

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti

Year

1993

Type

Movie

In the Mirror of Maya Deren

Year

2002

Type

Movie

Cinema16: American Short Films

Year

2006

Type

Movie

Invocation: Maya Deren

Year

1986

Type

Movie

Maya Deren's Sink

Year

2011

Type

Movie

Vever (For Barbara)

Year

2023

Type

Movie

Maya Deren - Experimental Films

Year

2002

Type

Movie

Alter Ego Film Project

Year

2024

Type

Movie

Season of Strangers

Year

1959

Type

Movie

Medusa

Year

1949

Type

Movie

A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes

Year

1975

Type

Movie