As Writer
Vever (For Barbara)
2023
5.0
Maya Deren
Acting
Birth Date
April 29, 1917
Place of Birth
Kyiv, Ukraine
Date of Death
October 13, 1961
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.
