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Maya Deren
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…
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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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2024
Alter Ego Film Project
Movie Original Film Writer
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2023
Vever (For Barbara)
Movie Sound
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2012
Maya Deren, Take Zero
Movie Herself
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2011
Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
Movie Herself (archive footage)
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2011
Maya Deren's Sink
Movie Herself (archival footage)
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2006
Cinema16: American Short Films
Movie Director
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2002
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Movie Herself
- 2002
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1993
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
Movie Director
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1986
Invocation: Maya Deren
Movie Herself (archive footage)
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1959
Season of Strangers
Movie Director
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1958
The Very Eye of Night
Movie Director
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1951
Ensemble for Somnambulists
Movie Writer
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1949
Meditation on Violence
Movie Director
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1949
Medusa
Movie Director
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1946
The Private Life of a Cat
Movie Producer
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- 1946
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1945
A Study in Choreography for Camera
Movie Director
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1945
A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes
Movie Director
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1944
At Land
Movie
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1944
Witch's Cradle
Movie Director
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1943
Meshes of the Afternoon
Movie The Woman
