Born 1917 (age 44) · Kyiv, Ukraine
Appears in 21 titles

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.

Filmography

Meshes of the Afternoon
7.6
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943
as The Woman
At Land
7.3
At Land
1944
Ritual in Transfigured Time
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
7.5
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002
as Herself
Invocation: Maya Deren
6.3
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986
as Herself (archive footage)
Maya Deren's Sink
4.5
Maya Deren's Sink
2011
as Herself (archival footage)
5.0
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012
as Herself