Maya Deren
Director · Actor · WriterMaya 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.
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KNOWN FOR
FILMOGRAPHY
ACTOR8
- Maya Deren, Take Zero
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012
Herself
Maya Deren's Sink
2011
Herself (archival footage)
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002
Herself
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986
Herself (archive footage)
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
At Land
1944
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943
The Woman
DIRECTOR15
Cinema16: American Short Films
2006
Director
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002
Director
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993
Director
Season of Strangers
1959
Director
The Very Eye of Night
1958
Director
Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951
Director
Meditation on Violence
1949
Director
Medusa
1949
Director
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
Director
The Private Life of a Cat
1946
Director
A Study in Choreography for Camera
1945
Director
A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes
1945
Director
At Land
1944
Director
Witch's Cradle
1944
Director
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943
Director
WRITER9
Alter Ego Film Project
2024
Original Film Writer
Vever (For Barbara)
2023
Writer
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002
Writer
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993
Book
The Very Eye of Night
1958
Writer
Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951
Writer
Meditation on Violence
1949
Writer
At Land
1944
Writer
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943
Writer
