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

In the Mirror of Maya Deren

At Land

Acting

1943

Meshes of the Afternoon

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The Woman

2002

In the Mirror of Maya Deren

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Herself

1946

Ritual in Transfigured Time

as

2002

Maya Deren - Experimental Films

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2012

Maya Deren, Take Zero

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Herself

1944

At Land

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1986

Invocation: Maya Deren

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Herself (archive footage)

2011

Maya Deren's Sink

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Herself (archival footage)

Production

1946

The Private Life of a Cat

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1951

Ensemble for Somnambulists

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Crew

2002

Maya Deren - Experimental Films

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1949

Meditation on Violence

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1958

The Very Eye of Night

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Directing

1943

Meshes of the Afternoon

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1944

At Land

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1993

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti

as

1944

Witch's Cradle

as

1945

A Study in Choreography for Camera

as

1949

Meditation on Violence

as

1958

The Very Eye of Night

as

1946

Ritual in Transfigured Time

as

2002

Maya Deren - Experimental Films

as

1951

Ensemble for Somnambulists

as

2006

Cinema16: American Short Films

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1946

The Private Life of a Cat

as

1959

Season of Strangers

as

1949

Medusa

as

1975

A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes

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