Maya Deren
Directing · Sound · Director · Editor
Born Apr 29, 1917 · Kyiv, Ukraine
Active 1943–1961 · Awards: Guggenheim Fellowship
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…
Filmography
Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) — The Woman · Director · Editor · WriterAt Land (1944) — Director · WriterRitual in Transfigured Time (1946) — DirectorThe Private Life of a Cat (1946) — Producer · Co-DirectorA Study in Choreography for Camera (1945) — DirectorWitch's Cradle (1944) — DirectorThe Very Eye of Night (1958) — Director · Editor · Cinematography · WriterMeditation on Violence (1949) — Director · Writer · CinematographyDivine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1993) — Director · Director of Photography · BookEnsemble for Somnambulists (1951) — Director · Writer · ProducerA Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes (1945) — DirectorCinema16: American Short Films (2006) — DirectorVever (For Barbara) (2023) — Sound · WriterMaya Deren, Take Zero (2012) — MusicMaya Deren - Experimental Films (2002) — Cinematography · Director · Editor · WriterAlter Ego Film Project (2024) — Original Film WriterSeason of Strangers (1959) — DirectorMedusa (1949) — Director