Personal Info
Known For
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
April 29, 1917
Died
October 13, 1961 (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
Acting
Directing
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
Director, Director of Photography, Book
1993
The Very Eye of Night
Director, Editor, Cinematography, Writer
1958
Ensemble for Somnambulists
Director, Writer, Producer
1951
Meditation on Violence
Director, Writer, Cinematography
1949
The Private Life of a Cat
Producer, Director
1946
Ritual in Transfigured Time
Director
1946
A Study in Choreography for Camera
Director
1945
At Land
Director, Writer
1944
Witch's Cradle
Director
1944
Meshes of the Afternoon
Director, Editor, Writer
1943