Maya Deren
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.
8
Acting Credits
18
Crew Credits
Acting
Movie
Meshes of the Afternoon
as The Woman
1943
Movie
At Land
1944
Movie
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
Movie
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
as Herself
2002
Movie
Invocation: Maya Deren
as Herself (archive footage)
1986
Movie
Maya Deren's Sink
as Herself (archival footage)
2011
Movie
Maya Deren, Take Zero
as Herself
2012
Movie
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002
Crew
Movie
Meshes of the Afternoon
Director
1943
Movie
At Land
Director
1944
Movie
A Study in Choreography for Camera
Director
1945
Movie
Ritual in Transfigured Time
Director
1946
Movie
The Private Life of a Cat
Producer
1946
Movie
Witch's Cradle
Director
1944
Movie
The Very Eye of Night
Director
1958
Movie
Meditation on Violence
Director
1949
Movie
Ensemble for Somnambulists
Director
1951
Movie
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
Director
1993
Movie
Cinema16: American Short Films
Director
2006
Movie
Vever (For Barbara)
Sound
2023