Maya Deren
Personal Info
Know For
Directing
Gender
Female
Birthday
1917-04-29 (44 years old)
Deathday
1961-10-13
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.
Acting
1943
as The Woman
2002
as Herself
2012
as Herself
1944
1986
as Herself (archive footage)
2011
as Herself (archival footage)
Production
2023
as Sound
1943
as Director
1943
as Editor
1944
as Writer
1944
as Director
1993
as Director
1944
as Director
1945
as Director
1949
as Director
1958
as Director
1946
as Director
1946
as Producer
2002
as Cinematography
2002
as Director
2002
as Editor
2002
as Writer
1951
as Writer
1951
as Director
1951
as Producer
2006
as Director
2012
as Music
1946
as Director
1993
as Director of Photography
1949
as Writer
1949
as Cinematography
1943
as Writer
2024
as Original Film Writer
1993
1949
as Director
1959
as Director
2023
as Writer
1958
as Editor
1958
as Cinematography
1958
as Writer
1975
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