Maya Deren

Director 11 / Writer 7 / Actor 5 · 1943 – 2024 · 🎬 23 · 🇺🇸 United States

Maya Deren was a Russian-born American experimental filmmaker and important part 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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Fantasy documentary Music Mystery Horror

Highlights

Alter Ego Film Project

2024

Cinema16: American Short Films

2006

In the Mirror of Maya Deren

2002

Frequent Collaborators

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Alexander Hammid

13 shared

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Teiji Ito

6 shared

Chao-Li Chi

5 shared

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Hella Hammid

4 shared

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Cherel Ito

4 shared

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Anna Schnabel

3 shared

All decades 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s

🎬 Movies

Alter Ego Film Project

writer

2024

Cinema16: American Short Films

director

2006

In the Mirror of Maya Deren

actor

2002

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti

writer

1993

Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti

director

1993

Invocation: Maya Deren

actor

1986

The Very Eye of Night

writer

1958

The Very Eye of Night

director

1958

Ensemble for Somnambulists

director

1951

Ensemble for Somnambulists

writer

1951

Meditation on Violence

writer

1949

Meditation on Violence

director

1949

The Private Life of a Cat

director

1946

Ritual in Transfigured Time

director

1946

Ritual in Transfigured Time

actor

1946

A Study in Choreography for Camera

director

1945

At Land

director

1944

Witch's Cradle

director

1944

At Land

actor

1944

At Land

writer

1944

Meshes of the Afternoon

director

1943

Meshes of the Afternoon

actor

1943

Meshes of the Afternoon

writer

1943

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