Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
1917-04-29
Deathday
1961-10-13
Place of Birth
Kyiv, Ukraine
Maya Deren
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
Meshes of the Afternoon
as The Woman
At Land
Ritual in Transfigured Time
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
as Herself
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
as Herself (archive footage)
Invocation: Maya Deren
as Herself (archive footage)
Maya Deren's Sink
as Herself (archival footage)
Maya Deren, Take Zero
as Herself
