Maya Deren
Maya Deren (; born Eleonora Derenkovskaya, ; – October 13, 1961) was a Ukrainian-born (Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic, now Ukraine) American experimental filmmaker and important part 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 expertise in dance and choreography, ethnography, the African spirit religion of Haitian Vodou, symbolist poetry and gestalt psychology (as a student of Kurt Koffka) in a series of 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, innovating through carefully planned films with specific conceptual aims.
''Meshes of the Afternoon'' (1943), her collaboration with her husband at the time, Alexander Hammid, has been one of the most influential experimental films in American cinema history. Deren went on to make several more films, including but not limited to ''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. Provided by Wikipedia
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Divine horsemen; Voodoo gods of Haiti / by Deren, Maya
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An anagram of ideas on art, form and film. by Deren, Maya
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Divine horsemen : the living gods of Haiti / by Deren, Maya
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Collected experimental films by Deren, Maya
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Divine horsemen : the living gods of Haiti / by Deren, Maya
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Essential Deren : collected writings on film / by Deren, Maya
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Divine horsemen the living gods of Haiti.
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Maya Deren : choreographed for camera / by Durant, Mark Alice
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Maya Deren, volume 1 Dances for the camera.
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Maya Deren, collected experimental films
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The Maya Deren collection /
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Meshes of the afternoon /
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A study in choreography for camera /
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Maya Deren and the American avant-garde /
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Maya Deren Experimental films /
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The legend of Maya Deren : a documentary biography and collected works / by Clark, Vèvè A.
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