Name
Maya Deren
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1917-04-29
Deathday
1961-10-13 (44 years old)
Place of Birth
Kyiv, Ukraine
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.
Known For
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Ensemble for Somnambulists is an unfinished experimental silent film Maya Deren made while...
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A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening ...
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Experimental filmmaker Pip Chodorov traces the course of experimental film in America, tak...
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Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent fi...
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A social event choreographed in the manner of a dance, illuminated by concepts drawn from ...
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The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, al...
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Chao-Li Chi shadow boxes indoors and practices with a sword outdoors. Theoretically, the f...
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Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de d...
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Maya Deren’s shortest, two-minute A Study in Choreography for Camera seems like an exerc...
- 1943 Meshes of the Afternoon as The Woman
- 2002 In the Mirror of Maya Deren as Herself
- 1946 Ritual in Transfigured Time
- 2002 Maya Deren - Experimental Films
- 2012 Maya Deren, Take Zero as Herself
- 1944 At Land
- 1986 Invocation: Maya Deren as Herself (archive footage)
- 2011 Maya Deren's Sink as Herself (archival footage)
- 2011 Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film as Herself (archive footage)
