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

Meshes of the Afternoon

Maya Deren's Sink

At Land

Invocation: Maya Deren

In the Mirror of Maya Deren

Ritual in Transfigured Time

Maya Deren - Experimental Films

All Movies (8)

• Maya Deren, Take Zero2012 · as Herself
• Maya Deren's Sink2011 · as Herself (archival footage)
• In the Mirror of Maya Deren2002 · as Herself
• Maya Deren - Experimental Films2002
• Invocation: Maya Deren1986 · as Herself (archive footage)
• Ritual in Transfigured Time1946
• At Land1944
• Meshes of the Afternoon1943 · as The Woman