Director

Maya Deren

April 29, 1917 · Kyiv, Ukraine

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.

Notable work

7.6
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
as The Woman and Director and Writer

Often works with

Alexander Hammid
3 titles together
Meshes of the Afternoon, At Land, Maya Deren - Experimental Films

Full filmography · 15

Vever (For Barbara)
Writer
2023
Cinema16: American Short Films
Director
2006
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
cast and Director and Writer
2002
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
Director
1993
Season of Strangers
Director
1959
The Very Eye of Night
Director and Writer
19586.1
Ensemble for Somnambulists
Director and Writer
19516
Meditation on Violence
Director and Writer
19495.8
Medusa
Director
1949
Ritual in Transfigured Time
cast and Director
19466.9
A Study in Choreography for Camera
Director
19456
A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes
Director
1945