
Maya Deren
Directing
1917-04-29 · Kyiv, 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.
Filmography

Alter Ego Film Project
2024 · Movie

Vever (For Barbara)
2023 · Movie
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012 · Movie

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 · Movie

Maya Deren's Sink
2011 · Movie

Cinema16: American Short Films
2006 · Movie

In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002 · Movie

Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002 · Movie

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993 · Movie

Invocation: Maya Deren
1986 · Movie

Season of Strangers
1959 · Movie

The Very Eye of Night
1958 · Movie

Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951 · Movie

Meditation on Violence
1949 · Movie

Medusa
1949 · Movie

The Private Life of a Cat
1946 · Movie

Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946 · Movie

A Study in Choreography for Camera
1945 · Movie

A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes
1945 · Movie

At Land
1944 · Movie

Witch's Cradle
1944 · Movie

Meshes of the Afternoon
1943 · Movie