Maya Deren
April 29, 1917 (107 years old) in Kyiv, Ukraine
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
Credits
- 2012 · Maya Deren, Take Zero as Herself
- 2011 · Maya Deren's Sink as Herself (archival footage)
- 2002 · In the Mirror of Maya Deren as Herself
- 2002 · Maya Deren - Experimental Films as
- 1986 · Invocation: Maya Deren as Herself (archive footage)
- 1946 · Ritual in Transfigured Time as
- 1944 · At Land as
- 1943 · Meshes of the Afternoon as The Woman