
🎬 Director
Maya Deren
🎂 Born 29 April 1917 (age 44)✝ 13 October 1961📍 Kyiv, Ukraine
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Popularity Score
7
Acting Credits
15
Directed
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
Directed Films(15)

★ 7.6
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943
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★ 7.5
Cinema16: American Short Films
2006
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★ 5.7
Meditation on Violence
1949
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★ 7.3
At Land
1944
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★ 6.7
Witch's Cradle
1944
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★ 7.2
The Private Life of a Cat
1946
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★ 6.9
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946
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★ 6.0
The Very Eye of Night
1958
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★ 6.0
Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951
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★ 6.0
A Study in Choreography for Camera
1945
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★ 6.3
Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993
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Medusa
1949
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Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002
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★ 8.0
A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes
1945
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Season of Strangers
1959
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