Maya Deren
Directing
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.
Filmography 19
Movies (19)
- Maya Deren, Take Zero2012Herself
Maya Deren's Sink2011Herself (archival footage)
Cinema16: American Short Films2006Directing
In the Mirror of Maya Deren2002Herself
Maya Deren - Experimental Films2002
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti1993Directing
Invocation: Maya Deren1986Herself (archive footage)
Season of Strangers1959Directing
The Very Eye of Night1958Directing
Ensemble for Somnambulists1951Directing
Meditation on Violence1949Directing
Medusa1949Directing
The Private Life of a Cat1946Directing
Ritual in Transfigured Time1946
A Study in Choreography for Camera1945Directing
A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes1945Directing
Witch's Cradle1944Directing
At Land1944
Meshes of the Afternoon1943The Woman