Directing
Maya Deren
Also Known As: Eleonora Derenkowsky
Birth Date
April 29, 1917
Death Date
October 13, 1961
(passed away at 44)
Place of Birth
Kyiv, Ukraine
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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.
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Movie
Meshes of the Afternoon
The Woman
1943
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Movie
Maya Deren's Sink
Herself (archival footage)
2011
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Movie
Invocation: Maya Deren
Herself (archive footage)
1986
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Movie
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
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Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Herself (archive footage)
2011
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At Land
1944
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In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Herself
2002
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Maya Deren, Take Zero
Herself
2012
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Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002