Maya Deren
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- April 29, 1917
- Place of birth
- Kyiv, Ukraine
- Died
- October 13, 1961
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.
Movies with Maya Deren
- Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 · ★ 7.6
- At Land 1944 · ★ 7.2
- Ritual in Transfigured Time 1946 · ★ 6.8
- In the Mirror of Maya Deren 2002 · ★ 7.5
- Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film 2011 · ★ 6.8
- Invocation: Maya Deren 1986 · ★ 6.3
- Maya Deren's Sink 2011 · ★ 4.5
- Maya Deren, Take Zero 2012 · ★ 5.0
- Maya Deren - Experimental Films 2002
Movies directed by Maya Deren
- Meshes of the Afternoon 1943 · ★ 7.6
- At Land 1944 · ★ 7.2
- A Study in Choreography for Camera 1945 · ★ 5.9
- Ritual in Transfigured Time 1946 · ★ 6.8
- Witch's Cradle 1944 · ★ 6.7
- The Very Eye of Night 1958 · ★ 6.0
- Meditation on Violence 1949 · ★ 5.8
- Ensemble for Somnambulists 1951 · ★ 6.0
- Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti 1993 · ★ 6.1
- Cinema16: American Short Films 2006 · ★ 7.5
- Medusa 1949 · ★ 4.0
- A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes 1945 · ★ 8.0
- Maya Deren - Experimental Films 2002
- Season of Strangers 1959