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Maya Deren

Maya Deren

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.

On screen

  • Maya Deren's Sink
  • Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
  • In the Mirror of Maya Deren
  • Maya Deren - Experimental Films
  • Invocation: Maya Deren
  • Ritual in Transfigured Time
  • At Land
  • Meshes of the Afternoon

Behind the camera

  • Vever (For Barbara)
  • Cinema16: American Short Films
  • Maya Deren - Experimental Films
  • Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
  • Season of Strangers
  • The Very Eye of Night
  • Ensemble for Somnambulists
  • Meditation on Violence
  • Medusa
  • Ritual in Transfigured Time
  • A Study in Choreography for Camera
  • A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes
  • At Land
  • Witch's Cradle
  • Meshes of the Afternoon

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