Maya Deren
April 29, 1917 (107 years old) in 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
Credits
- 2012 ·Maya Deren, Take Zeroas Herself
- 2011 ·Maya Deren's Sinkas Herself (archival footage)
- 2002 ·In the Mirror of Maya Derenas Herself
- 2002 ·Maya Deren - Experimental Filmsas
- 1986 ·Invocation: Maya Derenas Herself (archive footage)
- 1946 ·Ritual in Transfigured Timeas
- 1944 ·At Landas
- 1943 ·Meshes of the Afternoonas The Woman