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Maya Deren
Person

Maya Deren

Spezialität
Regie
Geburt
29. April 1917 · 44 Jahre
Tod
13. Oktober 1961
Herkunft
Kyiv, Ukraine

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Eleonora Derenkowsky

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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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