Maya Deren
Known for DirectingBorn 1917-04-29 — died 1961-10-13Kyiv, 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.
Known for
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943 · as The Woman
Maya Deren's Sink
2011 · as Herself (archival footage)
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986 · as Herself (archive footage)
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002 · as Herself
At Land
1944
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012 · as Herself
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002