* In 1987, Jo Ann Kaplan directed a biographical documentary about Deren, titled Invocation: Maya Deren ( 65 min )

* In 2002, Martina Kudlacek directed a feature-length documentary about Deren, titled In the Mirror of Maya Deren ( Im Spiegel der Maya Deren ), which featured music by John Zorn.

" — Maya Deren on Meshes of the Afternoon, from DVD release Maya Deren: Experimental Films 1943 – 58.

Maya Deren ( April 29, 1917, Kiev – October 13, 1961, New York City ), born Eleanora Derenkowskaia (), was one of the most important American experimental filmmakers and entrepreneurial promoters of the avant-garde in the 1940s and 1950s.

* Many films by Maya Deren ( 1917 – 1961 )

It was mentioned in the Song Dynasty ( 960 – 1279 CE ) historical text of the Song Shi ( compiled in 1345 ) that the engineers Yan Su ( in 1027 CE ) and Wu Deren ( in 1107 CE ) both created south-pointing chariots, which it details as follows.

He is best known for his bestselling book Film as a Subversive Art ( 1974 ) and as the founder of the New York City avantgarde ciné-club Cinema 16 ( 1947 – 1963 ), where he was the first programmer to present films by Roman Polanski, John Cassavetes, Nagisa Oshima, Jacques Rivette and Alain Resnais as well as early and important screenings by American avant-gardists of the time like Stan Brakhage, Maya Deren, James Broughton, Kenneth Anger, Sidney Peterson, Bruce Conner, Carmen D ' Avino and many others.

The edit its broken, choppy, showing different angles and compositions, and even with parts in slow-motion, Deren is able to keep the quality of the leap smooth and seemingly uninterrupted.

Meshes of the Afternoon ( 1943 ) is a short experimental film directed by wife-and-husband team, Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid.

Although Deren is usually credited as its principal artistic creator, filmmaker Stan Brakhage, who knew the couple, has claimed in his book Film at Wit's End that Meshes was in fact largely Hammid's creation, and that their marriage began to suffer when Deren received more credit.

* Meshes of the Afternoon ( 1943 ), At Land ( 1944 ), and Ritual in Transfigured Time ( 1946 ) by Maya Deren.

Meshes of the Afternoon ( 1943 ) by Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid is considered to be one of the first important American experimental films.

Deren filmed At Land in Port Jefferson and Amagansett, New York in the summer of 1944.

Both teachers had studied at SAIC and they exposed students to works by significant figures of the American avant-garde cinema such as Maya Deren, Kenneth Anger, Stan Brakhage, Owen Land and Paul Sharits.

In the spring of 1945 she made A Study in Choreography for the Camera, which Deren said was " an effort to isolate and celebrate the principle of the power of movement.

Taking on more of an environmental psychologist's perspective, Deren " externalizes the hidden dynamic of the external world ... as if I had moved from a concern with the life of the fish, to a concern with the sea which accounts for the character of the fish and its life.

Throughout the 1940s and 50s, Deren attacked Hollywood for its artistic, political and economic monopoly over American cinema.

When Maya Deren decided to make an ethnographic film in Haiti, she was criticized for abandoning avant-garde film where she had made her place, but she was ready to expand to a new level as an artist.

A source of inspiration for ritual dance was Katherine Dunham who wrote her master ’ s thesis on Haitian dances in 1939, which Deren edited.

* Itō Teiji, a Japanese composer and performer, best known for his scores for the avant-garde films by Maya Deren

Other awards include two Independent Spirit Awards for Best Director and Best Screenplay, the American Film Institute's Maya Deren Award, the Special Jury Recognition Award at the 1990 Sundance Film Festival, a Special Award from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, nominations for both Burnett and Glover by the New York Film Critics Association.

They take off for Meridian, with Cotson the logger and Deren Beq among the crew.

The Barrons assisted Maya Deren in the audio production of the soundtrack for The Very Eye of Night ( 1959 ), which featured music by Teiji Ito.

* Themes for Maya Deren ( 2004 instrumental album )

Nin appeared in the Kenneth Anger film Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome ( 1954 ) as Astarte ; in the Maya Deren film Ritual in Transfigured Time ( 1946 ); and in Bells of Atlantis ( 1952 ), a film directed by Guiler under the name " Ian Hugo " with a soundtrack of electronic music by Louis and Bebe Barron.

The next day he took part in Poetry And The Film, a recorded symposium at Cinema 16, with panellists Amos Vogel, Arthur Miller, Maya Deren, Parker Tyler, and Willard Maas.

* Deren, Maya.

* 1107 — The Chinese engineer Wu Deren combines the mechanical compass vehicle of the South Pointing Chariot with the distance-measuring odometer device.

** Maya Deren, Russian-born filmmaker ( b. 1917 )

Directors Maya Deren and Alexander Hammid portrayed the role of the woman and the man.

Deren and Hammid wrote, directed and performed in the film.

: Maya Deren was a key figure in the development of the New American Cinema.

Maya Deren.

Location of DeiraDeira ( Old English: Derenrice ( Scandinavian: Deren Riket ; Germanic Deren Reich ) or Dere ) was a kingdom in Northern England which probably emerged when Anglian warriors conquered the Derwent Valley in the third quarter of the fifth century.

Deren was also a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer, writer and photographer.

Using editing, multiple exposures, jump cutting, superimposition, slow-motion and other camera techniques to her fullest advantage, Deren creates continued motion through discontinued space, while abandoning the established notions of physical space and time, with the ability to turn her vision into a stream of consciousness.

Deren was born in Kiev, present-day Ukraine, to psychologist Solomon Derenkowsky and Marie Fiedler, who supposedly named her after Italian actress Eleanora Duse.

Her father shortened the family name to " Deren " shortly after they arrived in New York.

After graduation from Smith, Deren returned to New York ’ s Greenwich Village, where she joined the European émigré art scene, and worked as an editorial assistant and free-lance photographer.

In 1941, Deren wrote and suggested a children's book on dance to African American dancer and choreographer Katherine Dunham and later became her personal secretary.

It was there that Deren met Alexandr Hackenschmied ( later Hammid ), a celebrated Czech-born photographer and cameraman who would become her second husband in 1942.

When her father died of a heart attack in 1943, Deren purchased a used 16 mm Bolex camera with some of her inheritance money.