Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Born
April 29, 1917
Died
October 13, 1961 (age 44)
Place of Birth
Kyiv, Ukraine
Also Known As
Eleonora Derenkowsky
Maya Deren
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
Film
Meshes of the Afternoon
The Woman
1943
Film
At Land
1944
Film
Maya Deren's Sink
Herself (archival footage)
2011
Film
Invocation: Maya Deren
Herself (archive footage)
1986
Film
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Herself
2002
Film
Maya Deren, Take Zero
Herself
2012
Film
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
Film
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002
Filmography
2012FilmMaya Deren, Take Zeroas Herself2011FilmMaya Deren's Sinkas Herself (archival footage)2002FilmIn the Mirror of Maya Derenas Herself2002FilmMaya Deren - Experimental Films1986FilmInvocation: Maya Derenas Herself (archive footage)1946FilmRitual in Transfigured Time1944FilmAt Land1943FilmMeshes of the Afternoonas The Woman