Maya Deren
Directing
April 29, 1917
Died October 13, 1961 (44 years old)
Kyiv, Ukraine
9
Acting Credits
14
Directed
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
Filmography
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012
as Herself
5
Maya Deren's Sink
2011
as Herself (archival footage)
4.5
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
as Herself (archive footage)
6.8
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002
as Herself
7.5
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986
as Herself (archive footage)
6.3
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
6.8
At Land
1944
7.2
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943
as The Woman
7.6