Maya Deren
Known for: Directing
Born: April 29, 1917
Died: October 13, 1961
Place of birth: Kyiv, Ukraine
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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Filmography
22 movies · 0 TV shows, newest first
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Alter Ego Film Project
2024
5.0
Vever (For Barbara)
20235.0
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012
6.8
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
4.5
Maya Deren's Sink
2011
7.5
Cinema16: American Short Films
2006
7.5
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002
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Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002
6.1
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993
6.3
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986
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Season of Strangers
1959
6.1
The Very Eye of Night
1958
6.0
Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951
5.8
Meditation on Violence
1949
4.0
Medusa
1949
7.2
The Private Life of a Cat
1946
6.9
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
6.0
A Study in Choreography for Camera
1945
8.0
A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes
1945
7.3
At Land
1944
6.7
Witch's Cradle
1944
7.6
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943