Director
Maya Deren
109 years · Kyiv, Ukraine · 20 films
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.
Best known for
Filmography 20
Vever (For Barbara)
2023 · Writer
On DocAlliance Films
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 · Herself (archive footage)
On Kanopy
Maya Deren's Sink
2011 · Herself (archival footage)
Cinema16: American Short Films
2006 · Director
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002 · Herself
On OVID
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002 · Actor, Director
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993 · Director, Cinematography
On OVID
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986 · Herself (archive footage)
Season of Strangers
1959 · Director
The Very Eye of Night
1958 · Director, Editor
On Kanopy
Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951 · Director, Writer
Meditation on Violence
1949 · Director, Writer
On Kanopy
Medusa
1949 · Director
The Private Life of a Cat
1946 · Producer
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946 · Actor, Director
On Kanopy
A Study in Choreography for Camera
1945 · Director
On Kanopy
A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes
1945 · Director
On Kanopy
At Land
1944 · Actor, Director
On Kanopy
Witch's Cradle
1944 · Director
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943 · The Woman, Director
On Kanopy