Maya Deren
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- April 29, 1917, Kyiv, Ukraine
- Died
- October 13, 1961
- Movies
- 25
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.
Best-Known Movies
7.6
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943
7.2
At Land
1944
5.9
A Study in Choreography for Camera
1945
6.8
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
7.2
The Private Life of a Cat
1946
6.7
Witch's Cradle
1944
6.0
The Very Eye of Night
1958
5.8
Meditation on Violence
1949
7.5
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002
6.0
Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951
Filmography
| 2012 | Maya Deren, Take Zero | Herself |
| 2011 | Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film | Herself (archive footage) |
| 2011 | Maya Deren's Sink | Herself (archival footage) |
| 2002 | In the Mirror of Maya Deren | Herself |
| 2002 | Maya Deren - Experimental Films | |
| 1986 | Invocation: Maya Deren | Herself (archive footage) |
| 1946 | Ritual in Transfigured Time | |
| 1944 | At Land | |
| 1943 | Meshes of the Afternoon | The Woman |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 2023 | Vever (For Barbara) | Writer |
| 2006 | Cinema16: American Short Films | Director |
| 2002 | Maya Deren - Experimental Films | Director, Writer |
| 1993 | Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti | Director |
| 1959 | Season of Strangers | Director |
| 1958 | The Very Eye of Night | Director, Writer |
| 1951 | Ensemble for Somnambulists | Producer, Director, Writer |
| 1949 | Meditation on Violence | Director, Writer |
| 1949 | Medusa | Director |
| 1946 | The Private Life of a Cat | Producer |
| 1946 | Ritual in Transfigured Time | Director |
| 1945 | A Study in Choreography for Camera | Director |
| 1945 | A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes | Director |
| 1944 | At Land | Director, Writer |
| 1944 | Witch's Cradle | Director |
| 1943 | Meshes of the Afternoon | Director, Writer |
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