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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.
Total trailers found: 21
18 November 2024
5 short films, from 5 directors and 4 different countries on the theme of the Alter-Ego. The "Alter Ego Film Project" is inspired by the spirit of Maya Deren and her way of making films.
22 December 1946
An intimate study of the life of a domestic cat, taking place over a period of months as she gives birth to a litter of kittens and cares for them as they grow.
05 January 2011
Maya Deren's Sink, a 30 minute experimental film, is an evocative tribute to the mother of avantgarde American film.
12 October 2023
Deborah Stratman brings past perspectives into the contemporary moment in a montage of unfinished film footage from artist Barbara Hammer with evocative sound, texts, and teachings from artist Maya Deren.
01 January 1944
The surrealist film shows repetitive imagery involving a string fashioned in a bizarre, almost spiderweb-like pattern over the hands of several individuals, most notably an unnamed young woman and an elderly gentleman.
05 June 2006
CINEMA16 celebrates the short film by showcasing some of the best classic and award-winning shorts on DVD.
02 February 2002
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.
01 January 1943
A woman returning home falls asleep and has vivid dreams that may or may not be happening in reality.
01 January 1944
A woman washes up on a beach and embarks on a surreal journey, encountering others and fragmented versions of herself in a quest for identity.
22 October 1946
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.
24 April 1986
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.
01 January 1945
All of the rejected material from MAYA DEREN’s simplest and purest film offers the student of cinema and those interested in MAYA DEREN a vivid lesson in how she constructed a film.
20 March 1993
This intimate ethnographic study of Voudoun dances and rituals was shot by Maya Deren during her years in Haiti (1947-1951); she never edited the footage, so this “finished” version was made by Teiji Ito and Cherel Ito after Deren’s death.
03 May 1958
Dancers, shown in photographic negative, perform a series of ballet moves, solos, pas de deux, larger groupings.
17 October 1945
Maya Deren’s shortest, two-minute A Study in Choreography for Camera seems like an exercise piece to capture a dancer’s movement on celluloid, which later on developed into her masterpieces such as Ritual in Transfigured Time and Meditation on Violence.
24 April 1949
Chao-Li Chi shadow boxes indoors and practices with a sword outdoors. Theoretically, the film describes in a single continuous movement three degrees of traditional Chinese boxing, Wu-tang, Shao-lin, and Shao-lin with a sword.
06 July 1959
Unfinished, 16mm, b&w silent film directed by Maya Deren. No copy of this film exists
15 March 2002
Documentary about the life of avant-garde filmmaker Maya Deren, who led the independent film movement of the 1940s.
30 January 2012
This documentary interweaves films and voice recordings by Maya Deren with interviews featuring colleagues and contemporaries who worked with or knew her firsthand.
05 October 1951
Ensemble for Somnambulists was a film Maya Deren made while teaching a workshop at the Toronto Film Society.
