Directing · geboren 1917-04-29 · Kyiv, Ukraine

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.

Bekannt aus

• Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) – The Woman
• At Land (1944)
• A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945) – Director
• Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)
• The Private Life of a Cat (1946) – Producer
• Witch's Cradle (1944) – Director
• The Very Eye of Night (1958) – Director
• Meditation on Violence (1949) – Director
• Im Spiegel der Maya Deren (2002) – Herself
• Ensemble for Somnambulists (1951) – Producer
• Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1993) – Director
• Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011) – Herself (archive footage)
• Invocation: Maya Deren (1986) – Herself (archive footage)
• Maya Deren's Sink (2011) – Herself (archival footage)
• Cinema16: American Short Films (2006) – Director
• Maya Deren, Take Zero (2012) – Herself
• Vever (For Barbara) (2023) – Sound
• Medusa (1949) – Director
• A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes (1945) – Director
• Maya Deren - Experimental Films (2002)
• Alter Ego Film Project (2024) – Original Film Writer
• Season of Strangers (1959) – Director