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
Meshes of the Afternoon
76%
The Woman
1943
At Land
73%
1944
A Study in Choreography for Camera
60%
Director
1945
Ritual in Transfigured Time
69%
1946
The Private Life of a Cat
72%
Producer
1946
Witch's Cradle
67%
Director
1944
The Very Eye of Night
61%
Director
1958
Meditation on Violence
58%
Director
1949
Alter Ego Film Project
Original Film Writer
2024
Vever (For Barbara)
50%
Sound
2023
Vever (For Barbara)
50%
Writer
2023
Maya Deren, Take Zero
50%
Herself
2012
Maya Deren, Take Zero
50%
Music
2012
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
68%
Herself (archive footage)
2011
Maya Deren's Sink
45%
Herself (archival footage)
2011
Cinema16: American Short Films
75%
Director
2006
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
75%
Herself
2002
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
Cinematography
2002
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
Director
2002
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
Editor
2002
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
Writer
2002
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
61%
Director
1993
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
61%
Director of Photography
1993
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
61%
Book
1993
Invocation: Maya Deren
63%
Herself (archive footage)
1986
Season of Strangers
Director
1959
The Very Eye of Night
61%
Director
1958
The Very Eye of Night
61%
Editor
1958
The Very Eye of Night
61%
Cinematography
1958
The Very Eye of Night
61%
Writer
1958
Ensemble for Somnambulists
60%
Writer
1951
Ensemble for Somnambulists
60%
Director
1951
Ensemble for Somnambulists
60%
Producer
1951
Meditation on Violence
58%
Director
1949
Meditation on Violence
58%
Writer
1949