Maya Deren
Director

Maya Deren

9 movies as actor · 14 as director
Born Apr 29, 1917 – Oct 13, 1961 (aged 44)From Kyiv, UkraineAlso 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

Meshes of the Afternoon poster
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943 · Mystery, Fantasy
At Land poster
At Land
1944 · Fantasy
A Study in Choreography for Camera poster
A Study in Choreography for Camera
1945 · Music
Ritual in Transfigured Time poster
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946 · Fantasy
Witch's Cradle poster
Witch's Cradle
1944 · Fantasy, Horror
The Very Eye of Night poster
The Very Eye of Night
1958 · Music, Fantasy
Meditation on Violence poster
Meditation on Violence
1949 · Documentary
Ensemble for Somnambulists poster
Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951 · Music
In the Mirror of Maya Deren poster
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002 · Documentary
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti poster
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993 · Documentary
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film poster
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 · Documentary
Invocation: Maya Deren poster
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986 · Documentary

Movies directed by Maya Deren

Cinema16: American Short Films poster
Cinema16: American Short Films
2006
Maya Deren - Experimental Films poster
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti poster
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993
Season of Strangers poster
Season of Strangers
1959
The Very Eye of Night poster
The Very Eye of Night
1958
Ensemble for Somnambulists poster
Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951
Meditation on Violence poster
Meditation on Violence
1949
Medusa poster
Medusa
1949
Ritual in Transfigured Time poster
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
A Study in Choreography for Camera poster
A Study in Choreography for Camera
1945
A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes poster
A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes
1945
At Land poster
At Land
1944
Witch's Cradle poster
Witch's Cradle
1944
Meshes of the Afternoon poster
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943

Maya Deren as actor

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

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