Maya Deren
Also Known As: Eleonora Derenkowsky
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.
Department: Directing
Place of Birth: Kyiv, Ukraine
Birthday: April 29, 1917
Deathday: October 13, 1961
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Gender: Female
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Meshes of the Afternoon
Overview: A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality. Through repetitive images and complete mismatching of the objective view of time and space, her dark inner desires play out on-screen.
Genres: Mystery Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-01-01
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In the Mirror of Maya Deren
Overview: Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-03-15
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Ritual in Transfigured Time
Overview: A social event choreographed in the manner of a dance, illuminated by concepts drawn from Greek legend; one of filmmaker Maya Deren's most intriguing works.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-10-22
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Maya Deren - Experimental Films
Overview: The collected shorts of Maya Deren the "Mother of the trance film" who worked completely outside the commercial film industry and made her own inner experience the center of her films.The collected shorts of Maya Deren the "Mother of the trance film" who worked completely outside the commercial film industry and made her own inner experience the center of her films.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-02-02
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Maya Deren, Take Zero
Overview: This documentary interweaves celluloid and voice recordings by Maya Deren, and colleagues who knew her firsthand: Jean Rouch, Jonas Mekas, Alexander Hammid, Cecile Starr etc. Maya Deren (1917-1961) was an experimental filmmaker. In the 1940s and 1950s she made several influential avant-garde films, such as Meshes of the Afternoon (1943). Images from this and her other work are used in this documentary. You can also hear her voice, as well as accounts by contemporaries such as Jean Rouch and Jonas Mekas.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2012-01-30
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At Land
Overview: A dream-like narrative in which a woman (Deren), is washed up on a beach and goes on a strange journey, a quest for personal identity, encountering other people and other versions of herself.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1944-01-01
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Invocation: Maya Deren
Overview: Maya Deren is a legend of avant-garde cinema. This authoritative biography of the charismatic filmmaker, poet and anthropologist features excerpts from her pioneering Meshes of the Afternoon and her unfinished documentary on Haiti, interviews with Stan Brakhage and Jonas Mekas, and recordings of her lectures. Narrated by actress Helen Mirren, this definitive documentary offers startling insights into one of the most intriguing, accomplished figures in cinema history.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-24
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Maya Deren's Sink
Overview: Maya Deren's Sink, a 30 minute experimental film, is an evocative tribute to the mother of avantgarde American film. The film calls forth the spirit of one who was larger than life as recounted by those who knew her. Teiji Ito's family, Carolee Schneemann and Judith Malvina, float through the homes recalling in tiny bits and pieces words of Deren's architectural and personal interior space. Clips from Maya Deren's films are projected back into the spaces where they were originally filmed appearing on the floorboard, furniture, and in the bowl of her former sink. Fluid light projections of intimate space provide an elusive agency for a filmmaker most of us will never know as film with its imaginary nature evokes a former time and space.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-05
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