Maya Deren
Directing
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.
Born: April 29, 1917 · Kyiv, Ukraine
Filmography (11)
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002
Actor: Herself
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993
DirectorDirector of Photography+1
The Very Eye of Night
1958
DirectorEditor+2
Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951
DirectorWriter+1
Meditation on Violence
1949
DirectorWriter+1
The Private Life of a Cat
1946
ProducerDirector
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
ActorDirector
A Study in Choreography for Camera
1945
Director
At Land
1944
ActorDirector+1
Witch's Cradle
1944
Director
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943
Actor: The WomanDirector+2