Actor info
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Name :
Maya Deren
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Born :
April 29, 1917 in Kyiv, Ukraine (44 years at death)
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Died :
October 13, 1961
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Known for :
Directing
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Gender :
Female
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Film career :
8 films (1943–2012)
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Also known as :
Eleonora Derenkowsky
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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.
Notable films
- Maya Deren's Sink (2011) as Herself (archival footage)
- In the Mirror of Maya Deren (2002) as Herself
- Invocation: Maya Deren (1986) as Herself (archive footage)
- At Land (1944)
- Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) as The Woman
