Directing
Maya Deren
EN, DE, XX cinema · 22 credits
Born
29 April 1917
Died
13 October 1961 (aged 44)
Birthplace
Kyiv, Ukraine
Also known as Eleonora Derenkowsky
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
Filmography
Alter Ego Film Project
Original Film Writer
Vever (For Barbara)
Sound, Writer
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012
Maya Deren, Take Zero
as Herself, Music
Maya Deren's Sink
as Herself (archival footage)
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
as Herself (archive footage)
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
as Herself
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
Actor, Cinematography, Director, Editor, Writer
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
Director, Director of Photography, Book
Invocation: Maya Deren
as Herself (archive footage)
The Very Eye of Night
Director, Editor, Cinematography, Writer
Ensemble for Somnambulists
Writer, Director, Producer
Meditation on Violence
Director, Writer, Cinematography
Medusa
Director
Ritual in Transfigured Time
Actor, Director
The Private Life of a Cat
Producer, Co-Director
At Land
Actor, Writer, Director
Witch's Cradle
Director
Meshes of the Afternoon
as The Woman, Director, Editor, Writer