Maya Deren

Biography

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.

Directed

1. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) — Director
2. At Land (1944) — Director
3. A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945) — Director
4. Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946) — Director
5. Witch's Cradle (1944) — Director
6. The Very Eye of Night (1958) — Director
7. Meditation on Violence (1949) — Director
8. Ensemble for Somnambulists (1951) — Director
9. Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1993) — Director
10. Cinema16: American Short Films (2006) — Director
11. A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes (1945) — Director
12. Maya Deren - Experimental Films (2002) — Director
13. Season of Strangers (1959) — Director
14. Medusa (1949) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) — The Woman
2. At Land (1944)
3. Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)
4. In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2002) — Herself
5. Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film (2011) — Herself (archive footage)
6. Invocation: Maya Deren (1986) — Herself (archive footage)
7. Maya Deren's Sink (2011) — Herself (archival footage)
8. Maya Deren, Take Zero (2012) — Herself
9. Maya Deren - Experimental Films (2002)