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Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Birthday
April 29, 1917
Died
October 13, 1961
Place of Birth
Kyiv, Ukraine
Also Known As
- Eleonora Derenkowsky
Maya Deren
0.1 Popularity
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.
Known For
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Herself
Maya Deren, Take Zero
2012
4.5
Herself (archival footage)
Maya Deren's Sink
2011
7.4
Herself
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002
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Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002
5.0
Herself (archive footage)
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986
6.9
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
7.3
At Land
1944
7.7
The Woman
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943
Credits
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Maya Deren, Take Zero
as Herself
2012
5.0
Maya Deren's Sink
as Herself (archival footage)
2011
4.5
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
as Herself
2002
7.4
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002
0.0
Invocation: Maya Deren
as Herself (archive footage)
1986
5.0
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
6.9
At Land
1944
7.3
Meshes of the Afternoon
as The Woman
1943
7.7