Maya Deren

Known for: Directing
Born: April 29, 1917, Kyiv, Ukraine
Died: October 13, 1961
Movies: 25

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.

Best-Known Movies

7.6

Meshes of the Afternoon

1943

7.2

At Land

1944

5.9

A Study in Choreography for Camera

1945

6.8

Ritual in Transfigured Time

1946

7.2

The Private Life of a Cat

1946

6.7

Witch's Cradle

1944

6.0

The Very Eye of Night

1958

5.8

Meditation on Violence

1949

7.5

In the Mirror of Maya Deren

2002

6.0

Ensemble for Somnambulists

1951

Filmography

2012	Maya Deren, Take Zero	Herself
2011	Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film	Herself (archive footage)
2011	Maya Deren's Sink	Herself (archival footage)
2002	In the Mirror of Maya Deren	Herself
2002	Maya Deren - Experimental Films
1986	Invocation: Maya Deren	Herself (archive footage)
1946	Ritual in Transfigured Time
1944	At Land
1943	Meshes of the Afternoon	The Woman

Directing, Writing & Producing

2023	Vever (For Barbara)	Writer
2006	Cinema16: American Short Films	Director
2002	Maya Deren - Experimental Films	Director, Writer
1993	Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti	Director
1959	Season of Strangers	Director
1958	The Very Eye of Night	Director, Writer
1951	Ensemble for Somnambulists	Writer, Director, Producer
1949	Meditation on Violence	Director, Writer
1949	Medusa	Director
1946	The Private Life of a Cat	Producer
1946	Ritual in Transfigured Time	Director
1945	A Study in Choreography for Camera	Director
1945	A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes	Director
1944	At Land	Writer, Director
1944	Witch's Cradle	Director
1943	Meshes of the Afternoon	Director, Writer

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