Maya Deren
b. 1917 — d. 1961 (aged 44)
Kiev, Russian Republic (now Ukraine)
Actress
Director
Writer
Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleanora Derenkowskaia (Russian: Элеоно́ра Деренко́вская), 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.
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Filmography
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★ 6.0
Vever (for Barbara)
2019 Writer
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★ 6.0
Vever
2018 Writer
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★ 7.6
Maya Deren, Take 0
2012 Composer
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Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2007 Writer
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★ 6.6
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993 Director
Writer
Cinematographer
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★ 6.0
Invocation: Maya Deren
1987 Self
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Maeva
1961 Writer
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Season of Strangers
1959 Actress
Director
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★ 6.2
The Very Eye of Night
1955 Director
Writer
Cinematographer
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★ 6.1
Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951 Director
Writer
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★ 5.9
Meditation on Violence
1949 Director
Writer
Cinematographer
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★ 5.2
Medusa
1949 Director
Cinematographer
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★ 6.9
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946 Actress
Director
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★ 7.3
The Private Life of a Cat
1946 Director
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★ 6.4
A Study in Choreography for Camera
1945 Director
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★ 7.5
At Land
1944 Actress
Director
Writer
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★ 6.3
Witch's Cradle
1944 Director
Writer
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★ 7.8
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943 Actress
Director
Writer
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Iteration
Writer