Birthday: 1917-04-29
Deathday: 1961-10-13
Birthplace: Kyiv, Ukraine
Gender: Female
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.
Year | Title | |
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2006-06-05 | Cinema16: American Short Films | |
2002-02-02 | Maya Deren - Experimental Films | |
1993-03-20 | Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti | |
1959-07-06 | Season of Strangers | |
1958-05-03 | The Very Eye of Night | |
1951-01-01 | Ensemble for Somnambulists | |
1949-04-24 | Meditation on Violence | |
1949-01-01 | Medusa | |
1946-12-22 | The Private Life of a Cat | |
1946-10-22 | Ritual in Transfigured Time | |
1945-10-17 | A Study in Choreography for Camera | |
1944-01-01 | At Land | |
1944-01-01 | Witch's Cradle | |
1943-01-01 | Meshes of the Afternoon |