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Apr 29, 1917 Kiev, Ukraine Died on 13 Oct 1961 (aged 44)
American filmmaker
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About Maya Deren
- Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleonora Derenkowska (Ukrainian: ??????´?? ???????´?????), was a Ukrainian-born American experimental filmmaker and important promoter of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s.
- Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer, and photographer. The function of film, Deren believed, was to create an experience.
- She combined her interests in dance, Haitian Vodou and subjective psychology in a series of surreal, perceptual, black-and-white short films.
- Using editing, multiple exposures, jump-cutting, superimposition, slow-motion, and other camera techniques to her advantage, Deren abandoned established notions of physical space and time, resulting in a stream-of-consciousness approach. Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), her collaboration with Alexander Hammid, has been one of the most influential experimental films in American cinema history.
- She went on to make several films of her own, including At Land (1944), A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945), and Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946), writing, producing, directing, editing, and photographing them with help from only one other person, Hella Heyman, her camerawoman.
