Maya Deren

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Born 1917-04-29 · died 1961-10-13 · Kyiv, Ukraine

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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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Meshes of the AfternoonIn the Mirror of Maya DerenAt LandRitual in Transfigured TimeFree Radicals: A History of Experimental FilmInvocation: Maya DerenMaya Deren's SinkMaya Deren - Experimental Films