Maya Deren

Personal Info

Known For Director

Gender Female

Birthday 1917-04-29

Deathday 1961-10-13 (44 years old)

Place of Birth Kyiv, Ukraine

Also Known As Eleonora Derenkowsky

Maya Deren

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

Director

1959
1958
1949
1949
Medusa

as Director

1944
At Land

as Director

1944
Witch's Cradle

as Director

1943

Writer

Actor

2012
2011
Maya Deren's Sink

as Herself (archival footage)

1986
Invocation: Maya Deren

as Herself (archive footage)

1943

Crew

2002
1958
The Very Eye of Night

as Cinematography

1949
Meditation on Violence

as Cinematography

Sound

Producer

Camera

1993