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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

It was an attempt to " abstract the principle of ongoing metamorphosis ," found in Ritual in Transfigured Time, though Deren felt it was not as successful in the clarity of that idea, brought down by its philosophical weight.

Deren was a muse and inspiration to such up-and-coming, avant-garde filmmakers as Curtis Harrington, Stan Brakhage, and Kenneth Anger, who emulated her independent, entrepreneurial spirit.

Also in 1943, Deren began making a film with Marcel Duchamp, The Witches ' Cradle, which was never completed.

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.

Deren was a key figure in the creation of a New American Cinema, highlighting personal, experimental, underground film.

CFA was founded to distribute experimental films or " underground films " such as those of Maya Deren, John and James Whitney, as well as Anger's and Harrington's.

The movement was typified by more experimental filmmakers working at the time like Stan Brakhage, Harry Everett Smith, Maya Deren, Andy Warhol, Jonas Mekas, Ken Jacobs, Ron Rice, Jack Smith, George Kuchar, Mike Kuchar, and Bruce Conner.

For several years Dunham's personal assistant and press promoter was Maya Deren, who later also became interested in Vodun and wrote The Divine Horseman: The Voodoo Gods of Haiti ( 1953 ).

In live readings, Merrill was able to impersonate the narrating voices of ( deceased ) poet W. H. Auden and late friends Maya Deren and Maria Mitsotáki.

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.

Deren not only filmed, recorded and photographed many hours of vodoun ritual, but also participated in the ceremonies.

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.

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.

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

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

" As with her other films on self-representation, Deren only partially navigates the tendencies of the self and other, and the differences and similarities, through doubling, multiplication and merging of the woman in the film.

" The compositions and varying speeds of movement within the frame inform and interact with Deren's meticulous edits and varying film speeds and motions to create a dance that Deren said could only exist on film.

By her fourth film, Deren discussed in An Anagram that she felt special attention should be given to unique possibilities of time and that the form should be ritualistic as a whole.

The Guggenheim fellowship grant in 1947 enabled Deren to finance her travel and complete her film Meditation on Violence.

Maya Deren had a passionate sense of social commitment and moral purpose that distinguished her from the less favorable values of the entertainment industry ; from the indifferent, ironic attitudes of her surrealist and dada predecessors ; from the cool, hip attitudes of her Beat successors ; from the passive aesthetic of stylized filmmakers ; and from the pretentious attitudes of contemporary film theorists.

Anger has described filmmakers such as Auguste and Louis Lumière, Georges Méliès, and Maya Deren as influences, and has been cited as an important influence on later film directors like Martin Scorsese, David Lynch and John Waters.

The documentary In the Mirror of Maya Deren ( Im Spiegel der Maya Deren, 2002 ) is a film about avant garde filmmaker Maya Deren ( 1917-1961 ) by Austrian film maker Martina Kudlacek.

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.

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.

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

Maya Deren.

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.

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

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