Maya Deren

Maya Deren is an American director of Soviet origin, born with Kiev on April 29th, 1917 (or 1908) and deceased in New York on October 13rd, 1961.

Holding among the leaders of the experimental cinema, Maya Deren is the auteure of several court-measurings of surrealist and psychoanalytical inspiration, inspired by Cocteau. It in vain tries to take part in the federation of the American avant-garde to beginning of the year 50.

Biography

Girl of a Soviet psychiatrist emigrating with the the United States in 1922, it makes her studies in Suisse and with New York. Laid off in arts, it begins in journalism and deals with Danse, of Poésie then of Anthropologie. It makes the meeting of the scenario writer Alexander Hamid with whom it carries out Meshes off the Afternoon in 1943, marking an American avant-gardist near to Cocteau. Its films of room which suivèrent incorporates more and more the dance or the body expression. Thanks to a first purse decreed by the foundation Guggenheim, it makes research on ritual Vaudou S in Haiti, which will result from it a book Divine Horsemen (1953) and film a 5 a.m. old, that death will prevent to him from assembling. It is the author of a compilation of texts on art, the form and the film . With Amos Vogel, it creates the Creative Film Foundation then in 1953, it took part in the transitory existence of independent the Film-makers Association, first attempt at regrouping of the American experimental scenario writers.

Catalog of films

External bond

Maya Deren on Internet Movie Database
Videoartworld: The Masters Series (selected Catalog of films of Deren. Video onlines. Public domain.)

Sources

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