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
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
Cinema16: American Short Films
2006
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
The Very Eye of Night
1958
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012
At Land
1944
Alter Ego Film Project
2024
Maya Deren's Sink
2011
Meditation on Violence
1949
Witch's Cradle
1944
FILMOGRAPHY
All
Movies
TV
Acting
9
Directing
15
Writing
9
Producing
2
Camera
1
Editing
3
Sound
2
Crew
3