Directing
Maya Deren
Kyiv, UkraineBorn 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.
7
Films
0
TV Shows
16
Crew Credits
Known For
7 Credits
Behind the Camera
16 Credits
Meshes of the Afternoon
Director, Writer
1943
Witch's Cradle
Director
1944
The Private Life of a Cat
Producer, Director
1946
Medusa
Director
1949
At Land
Director, Writer
1944
Cinema16: American Short Films
Director
2006
Ritual in Transfigured Time
Director
1946
Meditation on Violence
Director, Writer
1949
A Study in Choreography for Camera
Director
1945
The Very Eye of Night
Director, Writer
1958
Vever (For Barbara)
Writer
2023
Ensemble for Somnambulists
Director, Writer, Producer
1951