Maya Deren

Directing·Apr 29, 1917·Kyiv, Ukraine

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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.

Film	Credit
Vever (For Barbara)2023 · Writer	Writer
MMaya Deren, Take Zero2012 · Herself	Herself
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film2011 · Herself (archive footage)	Herself (archive footage)
Maya Deren's Sink2011 · Herself (archival footage)	Herself (archival footage)
Cinema16: American Short Films2006 · Director	Director
In the Mirror of Maya Deren2002 · Herself	Herself
Maya Deren - Experimental Films2002 · Actor, Director, Writer	Actor, Director, Writer
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti1993 · Director, Director of Photography	Director, Director of Photography
Invocation: Maya Deren1986 · Herself (archive footage)	Herself (archive footage)
Season of Strangers1959 · Director	Director
The Very Eye of Night1958 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Ensemble for Somnambulists1951 · Producer, Director, Writer	Producer, Director, Writer
Meditation on Violence1949 · Director, Writer	Director, Writer
Medusa1949 · Director	Director
The Private Life of a Cat1946 · Producer	Producer
Ritual in Transfigured Time1946 · Actor, Director	Actor, Director
A Study in Choreography for Camera1945 · Director	Director
A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes1945 · Director	Director
At Land1944 · Actor, Director, Writer	Actor, Director, Writer
Witch's Cradle1944 · Director	Director
Meshes of the Afternoon1943 · The Woman, Director, Writer	The Woman, Director, Writer