Maya Deren
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- April 29, 1917
- Died
- October 13, 1961
- Birthplace
- Kyiv, Ukraine
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.
Filmography
Alter Ego Film Project 2024
Original Film Writer
Vever (For Barbara) 2023
Sound, Writer
- Maya Deren, Take Zero
Maya Deren, Take Zero 2012
as Herself, Music
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film 2011
as Herself (archive footage)
Maya Deren's Sink 2011
as Herself (archival footage)
Cinema16: American Short Films 2006
Director
In the Mirror of Maya Deren 2002
as Herself
Maya Deren - Experimental Films 2002
Actor, Cinematography, Director, Editor, Writer
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti 1993
Director, Director of Photography, Book
Invocation: Maya Deren 1986
as Herself (archive footage)
Season of Strangers 1959
Director
The Very Eye of Night 1958
Director, Editor, Cinematography, Writer
Ensemble for Somnambulists 1951
Director, Writer, Producer
Meditation on Violence 1949
Director, Writer, Cinematography
Medusa 1949
Director
The Private Life of a Cat 1946
Producer, Co-Director
Ritual in Transfigured Time 1946
Actor, Director
A Study in Choreography for Camera 1945
Director
A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes 1945
Director
Witch's Cradle 1944
Director
At Land 1944
Actor, Director, Writer
Meshes of the Afternoon 1943
as The Woman, Director, Editor, Writer
Credits from TMDB.