Maya Deren
Known for
Directing
Born
April 29, 1917
Birthplace
Kyiv, Ukraine
Died
October 13, 1961 (aged 44)
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.
Best known work
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943
At Land
1944
A Study in Choreography for Camera
1945
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
The Private Life of a Cat
1946
Witch's Cradle
1944
The Very Eye of Night
1958
Meditation on Violence
1949
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002
Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951Filmography
2024
Alter Ego Film ProjectOriginal Film Writer
2023
Vever (For Barbara)Sound, Writer
2012
Maya Deren, Take Zeroas Herself, Music
2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Filmas Herself (archive footage)
2011
Maya Deren's Sinkas Herself (archival footage)
2006
Cinema16: American Short FilmsDirector
2002
In the Mirror of Maya Derenas Herself
2002
Maya Deren - Experimental FilmsCinematography, Director, Editor, Writer
1993
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of HaitiDirector, Director of Photography, Book
1986
Invocation: Maya Derenas Herself (archive footage)
1959
Season of StrangersDirector
1958
The Very Eye of NightDirector, Editor, Cinematography, Writer
1951
Ensemble for SomnambulistsDirector, Writer, Producer
1949
Meditation on ViolenceDirector, Writer, Cinematography
1949
MedusaDirector
1946
The Private Life of a CatProducer, Co-Director
1946
Ritual in Transfigured TimeDirector
1945
1945
1944
At LandDirector, Writer
1944
Witch's CradleDirector
1943
Meshes of the Afternoonas The Woman, Director, Editor, Writer