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.

Known For

Meshes of the Afternoon

The Woman

Maya Deren's Sink

Herself (archival footage)

At Land

Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film

Herself (archive footage)

In the Mirror of Maya Deren

Herself

Ritual in Transfigured Time

Maya Deren, Take Zero

Herself

Invocation: Maya Deren

Herself (archive footage)