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