
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.


as The Woman
1943

as Herself (archival footage)
2011

1944

as Herself (archive footage)
1986

1946

as Herself
2002
as Herself
2012

2002
2002
as Herself
2012

as Herself (archival footage)
2011

as Herself
2002

2002

as Herself (archive footage)
1986

1946

1944

as The Woman
1943

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