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    1961-10-13

    1917-04-29109 years, 6 months, and 11 days old

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    Place of birth:

    Kyiv, Ukraine

    Adult:

    No

    Gender:

    Female

    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.

    Images Gallery

    Best Credits: 9

    Title
    Meshes of the Afternoon
    The Woman
    7.569
    1943-01-01
    1.0598
    In the Mirror of Maya Deren
    Herself
    7.5
    2002-03-15
    0.5473
    Ritual in Transfigured Time
    6.8
    1946-10-22
    0.3924
    Maya Deren - Experimental Films
    0
    2002-02-02
    0.2003
    Maya Deren, Take Zero
    Herself
    5
    2012-01-30
    0.3563
    At Land
    7.2
    1944-01-01
    0.2753
    Invocation: Maya Deren
    Herself (archive footage)
    6.3
    1986-04-24
    0.2882
    Maya Deren's Sink
    Herself (archival footage)
    4.5
    2011-01-05
    0.3906
    Free Radicals: A History of Experimental Film
    Herself (archive footage)
    6.8
    2011-07-24
    0.5655
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