Maya Deren

Directing · 1917–1961 · 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

7.6

Meshes of the Afternoon

1943 · Director

7.3

At Land

1944 · Director

6.0

A Study in Choreography for Camera

1945 · Director

6.9

Ritual in Transfigured Time

1946 · Director

6.7

Witch's Cradle

1944 · Director

6.0

The Very Eye of Night

1958 · Director

5.7

Meditation on Violence

1949 · Director

6.0

Ensemble for Somnambulists

1951 · Director

6.3

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti

1993 · Director

7.5

Cinema16: American Short Films

2006 · Director

8.0

A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes

1945 · Director

Medusa

1949 · Director

Directed

7.5

Cinema16: American Short Films

2006 · Director

Maya Deren - Experimental Films

2002 · Director

6.3

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti

1993 · Director

Season of Strangers

1959 · Director

6.0

The Very Eye of Night

1958 · Director

6.0

Ensemble for Somnambulists

1951 · Director

5.7

Meditation on Violence

1949 · Director

Medusa

1949 · Director

6.9

Ritual in Transfigured Time

1946 · Director

6.0

A Study in Choreography for Camera

1945 · Director

8.0

A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes

1945 · Director

6.7

Witch's Cradle

1944 · Director

7.3

At Land

1944 · Director

7.6

Meshes of the Afternoon

1943 · Director

Acting

Maya Deren - Experimental Films

2002

6.9

Ritual in Transfigured Time

1946

7.3

At Land

1944

7.6

Meshes of the Afternoon

1943 · The Woman