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Maya Deren

Apr 29, 1917 - Oct 13, 1961 (44 years old) in 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 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

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Meshes of the Afternoon
The Woman
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Maya Deren's Sink
Herself (archival footage)
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Ritual in Transfigured Time
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At Land
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In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Herself
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Maya Deren - Experimental Films
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Invocation: Maya Deren
Herself (archive footage)
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Maya Deren, Take Zero
Herself

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