1917-04-29 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.
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Maya Deren, Take Zero | Herself | 2012-01-30 |
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Maya Deren's Sink | Herself (archival footage) | 2011-01-05 |
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Maya Deren - Experimental Films | 2002-02-02 | |
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Im Spiegel der Maya Deren | Herself | 2002-03-15 |
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Invocation: Maya Deren | Herself (archive footage) | 1986-04-24 |
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Ritual in Transfigured Time | 1946-10-22 | |
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At Land | 1944-01-01 | |
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Meshes of the Afternoon | The Woman | 1943-01-01 |