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BornApril 29, 1917
DiedOctober 13, 1961 (age 44)
Place of birthKyiv, Ukraine
Film credits9
Maya Deren
DeceasedKnown for Directing
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.
Filmography
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Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012
as Herself
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
2011
as Herself (archive footage)
Maya Deren's Sink
2011
as Herself (archival footage)
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002
as Herself
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986
as Herself (archive footage)
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
At Land
1944
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943
as The Woman