Personal Info
Birthday
April 29, 1917
Place of Birth
Kyiv, Ukraine
Known For
Directing
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 Movies (14)
No Backdrop
7.5
Cinema16: American Short Films
Movie2006
No Backdrop
0.0
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
Movie2002
6.3
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
Movie1993
No Backdrop
0.0
Season of Strangers
Movie1959
6.0
The Very Eye of Night
Movie1958
6.0
Ensemble for Somnambulists
Movie1951
5.7
Meditation on Violence
Movie1949
0.0
Medusa
Movie1949
6.9
Ritual in Transfigured Time
Movie1946
6.0
A Study in Choreography for Camera
Movie1945
No Backdrop
8.0
A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes
Movie1945
7.3
At Land
Movie1944
6.7
Witch's Cradle
Movie1944
7.6
Meshes of the Afternoon
Movie1943
Acting Filmography (8)
6.8
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Movie2011
No Backdrop
4.5
Maya Deren's Sink
Movie2011
No Backdrop
7.5
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Movie2002
No Backdrop
0.0
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
Movie2002
6.3
Invocation: Maya Deren
Movie1986
6.9
Ritual in Transfigured Time
Movie1946
7.3
At Land
Movie1944
7.6
Meshes of the Afternoon
Movie1943