Maya Deren
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Ukranian-born American avant-garde filmmaker (1917–1961)
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Maya Deren was a female artist from the United States whose work period began in 1940. She is associated with the tags Ukraine, Avant-Garde, tribal, field recordings, and ethno. Her creative output includes works such as *Divine horsemen; Voodoo gods of Haiti*, *The voodoo gods*, *El Universo Dereniano*, *Der Tanz des Himmels mit der Erde*, and *No Title Exists*.
Born in 1917, Deren died in 1961. Her work has been referenced by 452 other encyclopedia articles. She has a recorded playcount of 2909 and 503 listeners on Last.fm.
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 8
Top works
- Divine horsemen; Voodoo gods of Haiti
- The voodoo gods
- El Universo Dereniano
- Der Tanz des Himmels mit der Erde
- No Title Exists
via Open Library + Wikidata
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1917-04-29
- Active to
- 1961-10-13
Discography
- Voices of Haiti1953
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 503
- Total plays
- 2,909
Tags
Maya Deren (April 29, 1917 – October 13, 1961), born Eleanora Derenkowskaia (Russian: Элеоно́ра Деренко́вская), 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. The function of film, Deren believed, like most art forms, was to create an experience; each one of her films would evoke new conclusions <a href="https://w
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Pembrolizumab versus Chemotherapy for PD-L1–Positive Non–Small-Cell Lung Cancer
· 2016 · cited 8,656x
- Global, regional, and national life expectancy, all-cause mortality, and cause-specific mortality for 249 causes of death, 1980–2015: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2015
· 2016 · cited 5,083x
- Predictive correlates of response to the anti-PD-L1 antibody MPDL3280A in cancer patients
· 2014 · cited 4,519x
- A SARS-CoV-2 protein interaction map reveals targets for drug repurposing
· 2020 · cited 3,965x
- Mdm2 promotes the rapid degradation of p53
· 1997 · cited 3,752x
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Key facts
- Born
- Eleonora Derenkovskaya , May 12 [ O.S. April 29 ] 1917, Kiev , Russian Empire
- Died
- October 13, 1961 (1961-10-13) (aged 44), New York City, U.S.
- Alma mater
- New York University New School of Social Research Smith College
- Notable work
- Films: Meshes of the Afternoon (1943) At Land (1944) A Study in Choreography for Camera (1945) Ritual in Transfigured Time (1946) Meditation on Violence (1947) Divine Horsemen: The Living Gods of Haiti (1953) The Very Eye of Night (1955) Books: An Anagram of Ideas on Art, Form and Film (1946)
- Movement
- Avant-garde cinema
- Spouses
- Gregory Bardacke ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1935 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1939 ) Alexandr Hackenschmied ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1942 ; divorced</span>"}]]}'>div. 1947 ) Teiji Itō ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 1960 )
- Awards
- Guggenheim Fellowship 1946 Grand Prix International for Avant-garde Film, Cannes Film Festival 1947
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Maya
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- Russian Empire
- Place of birth
- Kyiv
- Place of death
- New York City
- Spouse
- Teiji Ito
- Occupation
- writer
- Educated at
- Smith College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Notable work
- Meshes of the Afternoon
- Field of work
- cinematography
- Image
- Maya Deren.jpg
- Work location
- United States
Show 11 more facts
- date of birth
- 1917-05-12
- date of death
- 1961-10-13
- Commons category
- Maya Deren
- cause of death
- cerebral hemorrhage
- manner of death
- natural causes
- has works in the collection
- Whitney Museum of American Art
- related category
- Category:Films directed by Maya Deren
- Commons Creator page
- Maya Deren
- start of work period
- 1940-00-00
- writing language
- English language
- pseudonym
- Maya Deren
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Encyclopedic overview
Maya Deren (/ˈdɛrən/; born Eleonora Solomonovna Derenkovskaya; Russian: Элеонора Соломоновна Деренковская; May 12 [O.S. April 29] 1917 – October 13, 1961) was a Russian-born 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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maya Deren” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.