Maya Deren
Born: April 29, 1917
Died: October 13, 1961 (aged 44)
Bio: Maya Deren, born Eleanora Derenkowskaia, 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.
Known for:
- Meshes of the Afternoon (1943)
- At Land (1946)
- Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti
- A Study in Choreography for Camera (1946)
- Meditation on Violence (1948)
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