Maya Deren

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.

Filmography of Maya Deren

• Cinema16: American Short Films (2006)
• Maya Deren - Experimental Films (2002)
• Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1993)
• Season of Strangers (1959)
• The Very Eye of Night (1958)
• Ensemble for Somnambulists (1951)
• Meditation on Violence (1949)
• Medusa (1949)
• Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946)
• A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945)
• A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes (1945)
• At Land (1944)
• Witch's Cradle (1944)
• Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)