Personal Info

Known For

Directing

Gender

Female

Birthday

April 29, 1917(44)

Day of Death

October 13, 1961

Place of Birth

Kyiv, Ukraine

Also Known As

Eleonora Derenkowsky

IMDb Website

Maya Deren

Directing

Biography

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.