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.
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- 1917-04-29 · Kyiv, Ukraine
- Died
- 1961-10-13
Known for
- Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) — The Woman
- At Land (1944)
- A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945) — Director
- Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)
- The Private Life of a Cat (1946) — Producer
- Witch's Cradle (1944) — Director
- The Very Eye of Night (1958) — Director
- Meditation on Violence (1949) — Director
- In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2002) — Herself
- Ensemble for Somnambulists (1951) — Producer
- Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1993) — Director
- Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011) — Herself (archive footage)
- Invocation: Maya Deren (1986) — Herself (archive footage)
- Maya Deren's Sink (2011) — Herself (archival footage)
- Cinema16: American Short Films (2006) — Director
- Maya Deren, Take Zero (2012) — Herself