Directed credits
13
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Regular directing credits.
Director
Maya Deren
Directing
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Directed movies: 13Directed series: 0All crew credits: 17
TMDB ID: 96813
IMDb ID: nm0220305
Known for: Directing
Born: April 29, 1917
Died: October 13, 1961
Age: 44
Place of birth: Kyiv, Ukraine
Gender: Female
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1943 - 2024
Years active: 82
Average TMDB rating: 6.68
Wikidata: Q450382
Also known as
Eleonora Derenkowsky
Frequent jobs
Director (13)Cinematography (1)Original Film Writer (1)Producer (1)Sound (1)
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.
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Directed Movies
Movies directed by Maya Deren.
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Cinema16: American Short Films
2006 • Movie
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Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
1993 • Movie
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Season of Strangers
1959 • Movie
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The Very Eye of Night
1958 • Movie
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Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951 • Movie
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Meditation on Violence
1949 • Movie
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Medusa
1949 • Movie
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Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946 • Movie
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A Study in Choreography for Camera
1945 • Movie
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A Study in Choreography for Camera - Outtakes
1945 • Movie
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At Land
1944 • Movie
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Witch's Cradle
1944 • Movie
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Meshes of the Afternoon
1943 • Movie
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Witch's Cradle
1944 • Movie
as Herself (archival footage)
Maya Deren's Sink
2011 • Movie
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Meditation on Violence
1949 • Movie
as Herself (archive footage)
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986 • Movie
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Meshes of the Afternoon
1943 • Movie
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Cinema16: American Short Films
2006 • Movie
as Herself
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002 • Movie
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Ensemble for Somnambulists
1951 • Movie
Sound
Vever (For Barbara)
2023 • Movie
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At Land
1944 • Movie
Director
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946 • Movie
Director
The Very Eye of Night
1958 • Movie
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Other Crew Work in Movies
Additional movie credits for Maya Deren.
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Acting Appearances in Movies
Movie cast credits for Maya Deren.
as Herself (archival footage)
Maya Deren's Sink
2011 • Movie
as Herself
In the Mirror of Maya Deren
2002 • Movie
Maya Deren - Experimental Films
2002 • Movie
as Herself (archive footage)
Invocation: Maya Deren
1986 • Movie
Ritual in Transfigured Time
1946 • Movie
At Land
1944 • Movie
as The Woman
Meshes of the Afternoon
1943 • Movie