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Maya Deren

Maya Deren

Maya Deren

1917-04-29

Kyiv, Ukraine

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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.

Best known for:

Meshes of the Afternoon

At Land

A Study in Choreography for Camera

Ritual in Transfigured Time

The Private Life of a Cat

Witch's Cradle

The Very Eye of Night

Meditation on Violence

Ensemble for Somnambulists

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti

In the Mirror of Maya Deren

Invocation: Maya Deren

Cinema16: American Short Films

Maya Deren's Sink

Maya Deren, Take Zero

Vever (For Barbara)

Medusa

Season of Strangers

A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes

Maya Deren - Experimental Films

Alter Ego Film Project

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Filmography:

Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
6.4
APPEREAD AS:
The Woman
WORK AS:
Director, Editor, Writer
Witch's Cradle (1944)
WORK AS:
Director
A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945)
4.5
WORK AS:
Director
The Private Life of a Cat (1946)
WORK AS:
Producer, Director
Meditation on Violence (1949)
WORK AS:
Director, Writer, Cinematography
Medusa (1949)
WORK AS:
Director
Ensemble for Somnambulists (1951)
WORK AS:
Producer, Director, Writer
The Very Eye of Night (1958)
WORK AS:
Director, Cinematography, Editor, Writer

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Season of Strangers (1959)
WORK AS:
Director
A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes (1975)
WORK AS:
Director
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1993)
WORK AS:
Director, Director of Photography, Book
Cinema16: American Short Films (2006)
WORK AS:
Director
Vever (For Barbara) (2023)
WORK AS:
Sound, Writer
Alter Ego Film Project (2024)
WORK AS:
Original Film Writer

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