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-DirectorWitch's Cradle (1944) - DirectorA Study in Choreography for Camera (1945) - DirectorThe Very Eye of Night (1958) - Director · Cinematography · Editor · WriterMeditation on Violence (1949) - Director · Writer · CinematographyDivine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1993) - Director · Director of Photography · BookEnsemble for Somnambulists (1951) - Producer · Director · WriterA Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes (1945) - DirectorCinema16: American Short Films (2006) - DirectorVever (For Barbara) (2023) - Sound · WriterMaya Deren, Take Zero (2012) - MusicMedusa (1949) - DirectorMaya Deren - Experimental Films (2002) - Editor · Director · Writer · CinematographyAlter Ego Film Project (2024) - Original Film WriterSeason of Strangers (1959) - Director