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Known For

Directing

Known Credits

43

Gender

Female

Birthday

1917-04-29

Day of Death

1961-10-13 (44 years old)

Place of Birth

Kyiv, Ukraine

Also Known As

Eleonora Derenkowsky

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

Acting

At Land

1944

At Land

as

Invocation: Maya Deren

1986

Invocation: Maya Deren

as

Herself (archive footage)

Maya Deren's Sink

2011

Maya Deren's Sink

as

Herself (archival footage)

Production

Crew

Directing