Maya Deren
Birthday
1917/04/29
Day of death
1961/10/13 (44 years old)
Gender
Female
Place of Birth
Kyiv, Ukraine
Also know as
Eleonora Derenkowsky
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.
Acting
(1943) Meshes of the Afternoon
as The Woman
(2002) In the Mirror of Maya Deren
as Herself
(1946) Ritual in Transfigured Time
as ---
(2002) Maya Deren - Experimental Films
as ---
(2012) Maya Deren, Take Zero
as Herself
(1944) At Land
as ---
(1986) Invocation: Maya Deren
as Herself (archive footage)
(2011) Maya Deren's Sink
as Herself (archival footage)