Person
Maya Deren
- Specialty
- Directing
- Birth
- April 29, 1917 · 44 years
- Death
- October 13, 1961
- Origin
- Kyiv, Ukraine
Technical Alias
Eleonora Derenkowsky
Professional Trajectory
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.
