Directing · Kyiv, Ukraine · Born April 29, 1917
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.
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012
as Herself
MovieFree Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
as Herself (archive footage)
MovieMaya Deren's Sink
2011
as Herself (archival footage)
MovieIn the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002
as Herself
MovieMaya Deren - Experimental Films
2002
MovieInvocation: Maya Deren
1986
as Herself (archive footage)
MovieRitual in Transfigured Time
1946
MovieAt Land
1944
MovieMeshes of the Afternoon
1943
as The Woman
