Directing
Maya Deren
Born April 29, 1917 Kyiv, Ukraine
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 Films
7.5
Cinema16: American Short Films
2006
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Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002
6.3
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993·Documentary
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Season of Strangers
1959
6.0
The Very Eye of Night
1958·Music
6.0
Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951·Music
5.7
Meditation on Violence
1949·Documentary
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Medusa
1949
7.2
The Private Life of a Cat
1946·Documentary
6.9
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946·Fantasy
6.0
A Study in Choreography for Camera
1945·Music
8.0
A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes
1945
7.3
At Land
1944·Fantasy
6.7
Witch's Cradle
1944·Fantasy
7.6
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943·Mystery
