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.
Filmography
all 22
Movies 22
Director 13
self 4
Writer 3
Producer 2
Original Film Writer
Alter Ego Film Project (2024)
Movie
Sound / Writer
Vever (For Barbara) (2023)
Movie
Herself / Music
Maya Deren, Take Zero (2012)
Movie
Herself (archival footage)
Maya Deren's Sink (2011)
Movie
Cinematography / Director / Editor / Writer
Maya Deren - Experimental Films (2002)
Movie
Director / Director of Photography / Book
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1993)
Movie
Herself (archive footage)
Invocation: Maya Deren (1986)
Movie
Director
Season of Strangers (1959)
Movie
Director / Editor / Cinematography / Writer
The Very Eye of Night (1958)
Movie
Writer / Director / Producer
Ensemble for Somnambulists (1951)
Movie
Director / Writer / Cinematography
Meditation on Violence (1949)
Movie
Director
Medusa (1949)
Movie
Producer / Director
The Private Life of a Cat (1946)
Movie
6.8
Director / Writer
At Land (1944)
Movie
Director
Witch's Cradle (1944)
Movie
The Woman / Director / Editor / Writer
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
Movie
7
Information
Known ForDirecting
GenderFemale
Birthday1917-05-12
Deathday1961-10-13 (44 years old)
Birth PlaceKyiv, Ukraine
RelationshipsAlexandr Hackenschmied (1942 - 1947), Teiji Ito (1960 - 1961)
CitizenshipsUkrainian People's Republic, Russian Republic, Russian Empire, United States
Also Known AsEleonora Derenkowsky
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship
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