Maya Deren
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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.
Also known as
Eleonora Derenkowsky
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Known For
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943 · Movie
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986 · Movie
Maya Deren's Sink
2011 · Movie
Cinema16: American Short Films
2006 · Movie
Vever (For Barbara)
2023 · Movie
Alter Ego Film Project
2024 · Movie
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011 · Movie
The Private Life of a Cat
1946 · Movie
Meditation on Violence
1949 · Movie
At Land
1944 · Movie
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946 · Movie
The Very Eye of Night
1958 · Movie